Jim Carrey gives 'baffling' interview at New York Fashion Week

'You've got to admit, this is completely meaningless'

Jim Carrey at the New York Fashion Weerk (Getty)

Over the last few years, Jim Carrey stopped making headlines for appearing on screen, the focus instead being on the actor’s personal life.

During New York Fashion Week, Carrey — best known for roles in The Mask, Ace Ventura, and Liar Liar — made a rare public appearance.

Walking down the red carpet, an interviewer for E! stopped the camera-shy actor to discuss the event, Carrey venting some existential issues.

“There’s no meaning to any of this,” he told the reporter. “I just wanted to find the most meaningless thing that I could come to and join, and here I am. You've got to admit, this is completely meaningless.”

While slightly baffled, the reporter responded by asking about the icons the event was celebrating, to which the comedian/painter responded: “Celebrating icons? Oh boy, that is just the lowest aiming possibility that we could come up with. Icons. Do you believe in icons? I believe in personalities. I don’t believe that you exist but there is a wonderful fragrance in the air.”

Things then got slightly stranger, Carrey continuing: “I don’t believe in icons. I don’t believe in personalities. I believe that peace lies beyond personality, beyond invention and disguise. I believe we’re a field of energy dancing for itself. And I don’t care.”

Forming some sort of response, the interviewer questions why Carrey would get dressed up for the occasion, to which he replied: “I didn’t get dressed up, there is no me. There are just things happening… Here’s the thing, it’s not our world. We don’t matter, there’s the good news.”

Carrey recently featured in the news after a mini-documentary titled I Needed Colour premiered online, revealing the actor’s love of painting.