Jim Carrey on losing himself inside Andy Kaufman and why he relived it for the documentary 'Jim & Andy'

LOS ANGELES - Jim Carrey sat in a Los Angeles hotel room on a recent evening explaining that he was not really Jim Carrey anymore - at least not in the way he once was.

"I use his name," Carrey said, dressed all in black, his lanky frame folded onto a couch. "That's the mailing address."

But on a deeper level, the Carrey persona has fallen away. And now, at age 55, he is trying to live as much as possible without any mask or pretense and simply float through this vast, unending absurdity that is existence.

"There's always going to be two worlds: the absolute and the relative," Carrey said. "And the absolute is the understanding that there's only one thing: There's just a field of energy, and there's no you or I involved. It's