The Grinch Irritated Jim Carrey

The Grinch irritated Jim Carrey about as much as he did all the Whos in Whoville.

Carrey said his costume in the upcoming movie, Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas, was so painful that he compared it to being buried alive. He said the special contact lenses he had to wear "were like knives in my eyes."

"It was hellish," Carrey says in the Nov. 18 issue of TV Guide. "It was the hardest thing I've ever done in my life. It was very claustrophobic."