There was a time when people said, 'Jim, if you keep on making faces, your face will freeze like that.' Now they just say, 'Pay him!'
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Faces are the ledgers of our experience.
Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.
God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.
I remember doing a comedy show with Jim Carrey once, and he was out there with his foot behind his neck and rubbing his face with it.
The thing that got me closest to doing Kermit was remembering what Jim did when he was doing Kermit. When he would do Kermit, there were certain faces that he made. There was a certain way he stood, a certain kind of body language that he had.
You hear entertainers all the time, saying, 'If I couldn't get paid for this, I'd do it for free.' When's the last time you ever heard a business person say, 'If I couldn't get paid for being chairman of British Petroleum, I'd do it for free'?
I famously had a huge television producer say to me one time, 'Can you please stop doing that to your face? It's very distracting and unattractive.' And I was like, 'You mean move it? Okay, sorry, I guess we're not going to work together.'
Every single day, I get asked by people to do 'the face,' so I'm bringing it along with me now for the rest of my life.
Having glue stuck to your face in winter is not fun. It freezes as it hits the skin.
Of course, people told me, 'Mikey, you will never be an actor. You don't have the look. You're ugly.'
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