Jim Carrey How His Late Father Inspired His Career. This inspiring video explains how Jim Carrey’s late father inspired him to follow his dreams. “The decisions we make in this moment are based in either love or fear,” he told the graduates. “So many of us choose our path out of fear disguised as practicality. What we really want seems impossibly out of our reach and ridiculous to expect so we never ask the universe for it. I’m saying I am the proof that you can ask the universe for it. And if it doesn’t happen for you right away, it’s only because the universe is so busy fulfilling my order.”