Jim Carrey, who will be on the big screen this season in A Christmas Carol as the legendary Dickensian character Scrooge, says he's very different at work than at home.
"I'm at a very manic level when I'm working, but when I'm home I try to have a very peaceful world and live a healthy life. I have my spirituality. I have my motorcycles. I have a lot of different things in my life that bring me a lot of peace," he tells parade.com.
He says he sweats the small stuff.
"I get upset about controlling little things. Huge things I can let go of. I don't sweat my career, but when I have to deal with the cap on the toothpaste that doesn't go my way, look out! That's when my angst comes out. It's the stupid little things like the stereo not working."
Carrey says he keeps success in perspective.
"I feel like I could be working in a factory where I kind of started out loading trucks. Honestly, I don't have any perspective on it. It's just kind of one thing to the next. It's trying to do work and trying to have fun with what's in front of me. I have to go to that place of, 'I'm gonna try to enjoy every person who's in front of me in that moment, and try and live that way.' That's what I do. So I don't really think about anything iconic."
