Jim Carrey: I Could Be the Next Tom Cruise
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 15, 2007 01:15 PM EST
By Stephen M. Silverman
Jim Carrey is not afraid to have people laugh
at him instead of
with him, he says in a new interview.
"Everyone gets to be the big joke for a year. That's this business," Carrey tells
Time in its new issue. "Last year it was Tom Cruise. I could be the next Kathie Lee Gifford. But you have to say to yourself, 'Wait a minute, dude, that's not you.' "
In the magazine profile, the comedian
professes to have found spiritual enlightenment, revealing plans to get his ideas down on paper for a book he says he might title
Be Ready to Be O.K.
"It will be more representative of who I am than anything I've ever done," he says. "I feel like I know something. These thoughts make me feel like I'm wearing gold shoes."