Posted on 11/18/2004 3:57:46 PM PST by ConservativeMan55
JIM CARREY TELLS '60 MINUTES': MORE GOD, LESS PROZAC Thu Nov 18 2004 16:29:15 ET
Jim Carrey says the anti-depressant Prozac that he took may have helped him at one time, but he's better off without it now. In fact, says the actor, a no-drugs-or-alcohol policy and a spiritual life are the things that make him feel good. Carrey speaks frankly in a rare one-on-one interview with Steve Kroft to be broadcast on 60 MINUTES Sunday, Nov. 21 (7:00-8:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.
"I was on Prozac for a long time," he tells Kroft. "It may have helped me out of a jam for a little bit, but people stay on it forever." Then he describes being on the medication as not taking away the illness's peaks and valleys, only softening them. "There are peaks, there are valleys, but they're all kind of carved and smoothed out...It feels like a low level of despair you live in where you're not getting any answers but you're living okay and you can smile at the office," he says. "You know, I had to get off at a certain point because I realized that ...everything is okay."
Carrey takes nothing now. "I rarely drink coffee. I am very serious about no alcohol, no drugs," he says, "Life is too beautiful."
During the interview at his home, he invited 60 MINUTES cameras to one of his most beautiful and private spots, his "center of the universe," where he goes to escape the world and where he tells Kroft his feelings about God. "This is where I hang out with Buddha, Krishna...all those guys," says Carrey about a lean-to adorned with candles and a bed built high on his hillside property in Brentwood, Calif.
"I'm a Buddhist, I'm a Muslim, I'm a Christian. I'm whatever you want me to be...it all comes down to the same thing," he tells Kroft. Carrey says he believes they are all the same God and it is this conviction and spirituality that make him happy.
Has Carrey discovered Jesus?
Seems like he's trying to cover all the bases but at least he's on the right path...
Hardly
LOL!
The beginning of the article sounded good....but towards the end he started sounding like a crackpot.
Comparing Christianity and Islam and all.
"I'm a Buddhist, I'm a Muslim, I'm a Christian. I'm whatever you want me to be...it all comes down to the same thing," he tells Kroft.
He forgot "nut"
Oh yeah I agree. Getting off the drugs was a first step.
No........when you find Jesus......you know it. Not budda or allah.....or what ever.
Thats true!
I'm taking a guess that he was funnier on coke.
I wonder is 60 minutes will surprise him the fake documents showing he belongs to the Gevalia coffee club?
.....and Buddha, and Mohammed, and new age, and you name it. Suffice it to say, he's mistaken. It's NOT all the same god. But, maybe he's getting closer. Hope so.
There's a great line for Hillary.
I agree. Many mansions.
Wonderful comedian/actor.
He'd have to have an (R) next to his name for that to happen.
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