Jim Carrey likes to paint

Jim Carrey has a secret passion for painting.

The Mask star says he has found peace in art and now spends as much time as he can with a brush in his hand.

“I paint a lot,” says Jim who previously battled depression as well as drink and drug addiction.

“This is a huge passion for me. When I’m not acting, I literally wake up every morning, have my coffee and I pick up a paint brush. It’s not just something I do on the sun porch. I have a studio in New York. I haven’t revealed much but I’ve leaked out a couple of little things here and there. There’s a whole other realm for me that’s happening that I haven’t really revealed to the world yet. But I will!”

Carrey recently revealed that he used to want to be a vet.

“I wanted to be a veterinarian when I was a kid,” explains Jim. “But then I found out about the whole euthanasia thing and I said, ‘Can’t commit to that, sorry!’ It was my father who then put me onto comedy and performing.

“I would look at my father and how every time we had people over he would stand in the middle of the room, and people were just astounded at his creativity and his animation when he told a story. I just went, ‘Wow!’ There was no choice for me. It was like, ‘That’s how I’m gonna get on in the world! I want to be that guy.’”