On Saturday, the actor-comedian-painter Jim Carrey gave a strange interview during a rare public appearance at, of all places, New York Fashion Week.

In the interview, Carrey told a reporter: "There's no meaning to any of this. I wanted to find the most meaningless thing that I could come to and join, and here I am. I mean, you've got to admit, it's completely meaningless."

"There is no me. There is just things happening," he later added. "Here's the thing: It's not our world. That's the key. We don't matter. We don't matter. There's the good news."

And on Monday, at the Toronto Film Festival promoting his film "Jim & Andy," Carrey explained his comments to The Wrap.

"As an actor you play characters, and then if you go deep enough into those characters, you realize that your own character is pretty thin to begin with," he said. "You suddenly have this separation and go: 'Who's Jim Carrey? Oh, he doesn't exist actually.' There's just a relative manifestation of consciousness appearing, and then somebody gave him a bunch of ideas — they gave him a name, and a religion, and a nationality, and he clustered those together into something that's supposed to be a personality, and it doesn't actually exist. None of that stuff, if you drill down, is real."

And he didn't stop there.

"I believe that I got famous so I could let go of fame, and it's still happening, but not with me," Carrey said. "I'm not a part of it anymore ... Dressing happens, doing hair happens, interviewing happens, but it happens without me, without the idea of a 'me.' You know what I'm saying? It's a weird little semantic jump, and it's not that far, but it's a universe apart from where most people are."