Your body needs to be Depressed it needs Deep Rest !!! Jim Carrey's Speech NO ONE Wants To Hear

 

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if you had a day where nobody would

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recognize you i don't think i'd be that

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different honestly i dropped the whole

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trying to be something for somebody a

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long time ago so i pretty much walk

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through the world except when i want to

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be funny or i want to do something

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outrageous i don't have any trouble

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being myself and i don't have any

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trouble saying no when i mean no when uh

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i don't feel

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there is a you know pressing

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uh responsibility to please everyone i'm

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not unkind to people i love people i

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would much prefer saying hello and who

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are you and what are you doing today

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then uh giving a selfie because selfies

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stop the world you know they stop life

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you then go

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like that and it's going on instagram uh

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to give people a false sense

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of relevance people talk about

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depression all the time the difference

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between depression and sadness sadness

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is just

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you know from happenstance whatever

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happened or didn't happen for you or you

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know

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grief or whatever it is and depression

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is

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your body saying

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you

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i don't want to be this character

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anymore

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i don't want to hold up this this avatar

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that you've created in the world it's

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too much for me deep rest your body

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needs to be depressed it needs deep rest

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from the character that you've been

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trying to play i act because i'm broken

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in

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a lot of pieces

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and uh acting gives me a chance to

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reconfigure those pieces into a thousand

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different things uh that are positive

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for people to watch was there a moment

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where you first sort of realized like

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i want to be a performer this is the

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thing that i want to do with my life

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uh there was never any other choice from

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the time i that there was consciousness

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in the body

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i was i was looking at a man named percy

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my dad who was

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the

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most incredible character that you'd

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ever meet if you met him for five

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minutes you thought you knew him for 50

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years

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and he wrapped everyone that came into

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our house in stories and jokes and

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i became his calling at a certain point

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and he was always super behind me but

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from the first time i can remember him

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just lighting up the room you know and

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him just like wrapping everybody in a

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story or whatever and and going oh

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that's that's the thing i want to do you

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know that's that's what i want to be

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my father could have been a great

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comedian but he didn't believe that that

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was possible for him and so he made a

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conservative choice instead he got a

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safe job as an accountant and when i was

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12 years old

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he was let go from that safe job

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and our family had to do whatever we

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could to survive

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i learned many great lessons from my

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father

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not the least of which was that you can

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fail at what you don't want so you might

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as well take a chance on doing what you

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love you know i watched the effect of my

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father's love and humor

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and how it altered the world around me

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and i thought

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that's something to do that's something

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worth my time

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it wasn't long before i started acting

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up you know people would come over to

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the house and they'd be greeted by a

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seven-year-old throwing himself down a

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large flight of stairs

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they would say what happened

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and i would say i don't know let's check

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the replay

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i'd go back to the top of the stairs and

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come back down in slow motion now fear

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is going to be a player in your life

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but you get to decide how much

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you can spend your whole life imagining

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ghosts worrying about the pathway to the

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future but all there will ever be

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is what's happening here

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and the decisions we make in this moment

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which are based in either love or fear

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so many of us choose our path out of

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fear disguised as practicality

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what we really want seems impossibly out

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of reach and ridiculous to expect so we

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never dare to ask the universe for it

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when i was about 28 after a decade as a

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professional comedian i realized one

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night in la that the purpose of my life

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had always been to free people from

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concern just like my dad

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the only one i hadn't freed

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was myself

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and that's when my search for identity

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deepened

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i wondered who i'd be without my fame

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who would i be if i said things that

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people didn't want to hear

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or if i defied their expectations of me

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and that peace that we're after lies

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somewhere beyond personality beyond the

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perception of others beyond invention

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and disguise even beyond effort itself

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you can join the game fight the wars

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play with form all you want

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but to find real peace you have to let

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the armor go your need for acceptance

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can make you invisible in this world

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don't let anything stand in the way of

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the light that shines through this form

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risk being seen

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in all of your glory

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your job is not to figure out how it's

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going to happen for you but to open the

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door in your head and when the door

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opens in real life just walk through it

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and don't worry if you miss your queue

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because there's always doors opening

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they keep opening

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and when i say

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life doesn't happen to you

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it happens for you i really don't know

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if that's true

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i'm just making a conscious choice to

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perceive challenges as something

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beneficial so that i can deal with them

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in the most productive way

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you'll come up with your own style

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that's part of the fun

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you are ready and able to do beautiful

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things in this world

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and after you walk through those doors

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today you will only ever have two

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choices

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love or fear

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choose love

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and don't ever let fear turn you against

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your playful heart what's happening

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right now inside everybody is they're

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going who am i

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and they're depressed people go like oh

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jim's been depressed and stuff well yeah

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i was depressed when i was trying to be

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the wizard of oz but now i know that oz

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is a character you know i think

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everybody deals with that everybody

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walks around and they go like why am i

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depressed well it's because you're

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trying to be something for the world

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you know and as soon as you

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let that go

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better things happen because they're

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just happening it's not uh

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you know now it's just sadness you know

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sadness comes happiness comes it's the

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weather that

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flies by in the sky it doesn't sit on

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you long enough to drown you a few

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months ago

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i woke up

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and

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i suddenly got it i understood suddenly

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how thought was just an illusory thing

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and how

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thought is responsible for if not all

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most of the suffering

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we experience

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and then

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i suddenly felt like i was looking at

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these thoughts from another perspective

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and i wondered who is it that's aware

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that i'm thinking and suddenly i was

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thrown into this expansive

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amazing feeling

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of freedom

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from myself from my problems

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you know when i go to sleep at night i'm

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not just a guy going to sleep

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i'm two-time golden globe winner

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jim carrey going

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to get some well-needed shut-eye

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and when i dream i don't just dream any

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old dream

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no sir

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i dream about being three-time golden

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globe winning

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actor jim carrey

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because then i would be enough

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[Applause]

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it would finally be true

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and i could stop this

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this terrible search

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for what i know ultimately won't fulfill

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me

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you