My family kinda hit the skids. We were experiencing poverty at that point. We all got a job, where the whole family had to work as security guards and janitors. And I just got angry.

In a Hamilton Spectator interview (February 2007) Carrey remarked "If my career in show business hadn't panned out I would probably be working today in Hamilton Ontario at the Dofasco steel mill. He soon bounced back in 1997 with the critically acclaimed comedy Liar Liar playing Fletcher Reede an incredibly successful lawyer who has built his career on lying regularly breaking promises that he makes to his son Max. Principal photography began on January 10 2012 and concluded on March 13.

Carrey is in talks to reprise his role of Lloyd Christmas in Dumb and Dumber To and he stated in March 2013 that the film will hopefully be worked on in 2014. Popper's Penguins (2011). His first leading roles in major productions came with Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994) Dumb and Dumber (1994) The Mask (1994) and Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (1995).