Jim Carrey is nothing if not dogged in his pursuit of well-roundedness. While plenty of actors have been only too happy to trade on the well-fed contentedness of their big screen personalities, and merely flip their careers into cruise control (a certain Dreamgirls Oscar nominee comes to mind), Carrey has for more than a decade shown a penchant for dancing on the razor’s edge. Broad comedies are his forte, but he clearly yearns for embrace — commercially as much as critically — in dramatic fare as well, as The Truman Show, The Majestic, Man on the Moon and now his choice to headline the recent The Number 23 all illustrate.

“I really have always thought of myself as somebody who lives in the middle of the wheel, and is able to go to the extreme, to the outside of the wheel, in any direction,” says Carrey. “The best case scenario for me is to be able to be centered and then go out. You can be zany and funny or you can do something that really has some depth to it and is serious ...I would hate to get trapped in one little thing. I always feel like funny is an appendage, but it is not my whole body.” For the full feature interview, from FilmStew, click here.