Quotes
 [from trailer]
Terrence Bundley: What was that you said?
Carl Allen: No.
[gets hit in the head by Terrence with his mic]
Carl Allen: Yes? [from trailer]
Carl Allen: I do want to take guitar lessons. I do want to learn how to fly. Yes, I would like to learn Korean.
Allison: Are you stalking me?
Carl Allen: No, i would never do that.
Carl Allen: Oh by the way, the new furniture looks great from the yard.
Allison: The world`s a playground. You know that when you are a kid, but somewhere along the way everyone forgets it.
Allison: Have you met my friend Ian? He`s a computer hacker. He helped me erase your MySpace page, and your band`s MySpace page, and your FaceBook page. Happy networking asshole!
Carl Allen: The era of "yes" has begun.
Carl Allen: Was I chewing gum before?
Tweed: Can you explain why you were at the airport buying a ticket with no luggage?
Carl Allen: You know it was a spur of the moment trip.
Tweed: Yeah I was just explaining to my partner here how much I`ve always wanted to see Lincoln, Nebraska.
Carl Allen: What I have to share is huge... and I want to share it with you.
CIA Officer: Now there`s another `Carl` we knew, and we weren`t too fond fond of him, his name was `Marx`.
Carl Allen: Hey Carl... you wanna give your money away to some homeless guy? Yes, yes I do. How bout letting him use up the phone battery so that you cant get help when your car runs out of gas? You know what? That sounds like a fuckin` great idea!
Carl Allen: [drunk] Hey... I`m just saying `yes` to life... cuz... you gotta say `yes` to life... I`m in a secret covenant... that sounded naughty!
Carl Allen: You ever had a Red Bull? Ive never had a Red Bull before, but I had a Red Bull last night - I really like Red Bull.
[shakes his glow-in-the-dark hoop]
Carl Allen: ... got this new... glow in the dark thing... cant really see it right now, unless you go like this...
[holds part of the hoop to his eyes and covers it with his hands]
Carl Allen: Steph...! I can`t... I`m so sorry.
Stephanie: What are you saying?
Carl Allen: ...I`m saying "no."
Multack: We knew another Carl that we weren`t fond of, now did we, Tweed...?
Tweed: ...his name was "Marx."
Carl Allen: I can`t believe I tripped like that.
Carl Allen: Yes!
[last lines]
Terrence Bundley: YES! Say it a million times. Then say it a million more. And the word you will have said two million times is...
[looks around and sees everyone at the seminar is naked]
Terrence Bundley: Oh my God.
Yes People: [while covering themselves up as best they can] YES!
Carl Allen: [incredibly drunk, after losing a bar brawl, said very sadly] She`s never gonna go to a ball.
Allison: [singing with her band] Don`t call me past 11 PM, it won`t happen again. You can call me at 10:59 but don`t call me at 11 because that`s my rule now.
Allison: [singing with her band] Don`t call me past 11pm, it won`t happen again. Happened once, it happened twice, it happened three times, maybe four times, maybe five times, maybe, maybe it happened six times, but it won`t happen seven times.
[first lines]
Carl Allen: No.
[last lines]
Terrence Bundley: Good God.
Terrence Bundley: Yes! Say it a million times. Then say it a million more. And the word you will have said two million times is...
Terrence Bundley: [looks around and sees everyone at the seminar is naked] Oh my God.
Yes People: [while covering themselves up as best they can] Yes!
Norman: We! Are! Sparta!
Norman: You called me Norm!
Carl Allen: Ya.
Norman: Could that like be my nickname?
Carl Allen: Ya, I guess.
Norman: Ah nice, I like your style, Car. That could be yours.
Carl Allen: Ya, Karl`s pretty short already but...
Nick: [listing things he`s done since he started saying "yes"] I killed a cow with a bazooka... I`m not proud of that last one.
Trivia
Jim Carrey performed his own bungee jump stunts.
Jim Carrey declined an upfront salary for this film. Instead he will be paid 36.2% of the film`s profits.
Jack Black was originally considered for the lead role.
Based on an autobiographical book written by Danny Wallace, a British author, producer, and journalist who spent a year answering "yes" to any given question or proposal and recording the results.
The day before Zooey Deschanel had to get on the scooter for the first time, her stunt double fell off and shattered her hip. Zooey was told that it would take the stunt woman about nine months to recover, so she was asked to get on the bike for the shot herself.
Cameo: [Danny Wallace] The writer of the book upon which the film is based can be seen sitting at the bar during the wedding shower.
Even though one of the movie`s main posters has Jim Carrey running through a field of flowers gracefully, he does not run through a field of flowers once throughout the film.
When Jim Carrey is in blockbuster the second time around, he picks up The Cable Guy (1996), a movie he stars in, to rent.
There are multiple references to Harry Potter in the film. David Heyman, one of the film`s producers, also produces the Harry Potter films.
While Carl is in the video store you can see another Jim Carrey movie, The Number 23 (2007), playing out of focus in the background.
Stars Jim Carrey and Zooey Deschanel share the same birthday, January 17. However, Carrey was born in 1962 and Deschanel in 1980 making him exactly eighteen years older than her.
In Norm`s office, we see posters for Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) and The Goonies (1985). Both movies featured Chris Columbus directing or writing. Footage from the first two Harry Potter films is also shown during the party scene.
Terence Stamp plays the leader of the Yes Program. He plays a similar character in Bowfinger (1999) as leader of the mind-head cult.
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# Jim Carrey was seduced by the project as he felt it would enable him to act in some truly funny scenes which would also make the audience think about themselves and wonder if they should perhaps say "yes" more often.
Director Peyton Reed spent a lot of time with Jim Carrey to find the right tone for the film, one which would be in between Carrey`s manic comedies and his more serious-minded films, as well as to complete the subject`s Americanization, as the source book comes from a British author.
Just like his character, Jim Carrey said "yes" to many things during the production of this movie. He indeed truly played the guitar, learned basic Korean, rode a sport bike and bungee-jumped. He however had to say "no" for the body blading scene.
The fictional band Munchausen By Proxy featured in the film is named after the Münchausen syndrome by proxy, which is a psychological disorder, and is composed of actress/singer/songwriter Zooey Deschanel and the real-life band Von Iva, which got the part after music supervisor Jonathan Karp saw the cover of their CD in Amoeba, in Hollywood. On Lakeshore Records` soundtrack release they are credited as "Munchausen by Proxy (f/ Zooey Deschanel & Von Iva)".
Composer Mark Everett is the lead singer of the rock band The Eels, which explains the large number of songs by the band featured in the film.
While filming the scene in the bar where Carl runs into a waitress and falls on his back, Jim Carrey did the stunt incorrectly, fell to the floor harder than he expected, and broke three ribs in the process.
SPOILER: After Carl plays the guitar and pulls the suicidal man off the ledge he shouts, "I`ve got blisters on my fingers". This is a reference to the song "Helter Skelter" by The Beatles. Ringo Starr shouts it after the song ends.
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