Quotes by Drew Carey

• When I did Comic Relief, I did it to be on the show; it's a badge of honor as a comedian to do that show.
• People laugh to forget their troubles, and to forget their troubles they like to look at people who aren't doing better than they are.
• Some people don't like competition because it makes them work harder, better.
• That's the great thing about having your friends around you. I've known these guys forever. I really enjoy their company just as people. You couldn't ask for a better work environment.
• There's no way I can justify my salary level, but I'm learning to live with it.
• What also helps our show is that we never take ourselves seriously.
• Nothing's funny about someone who's successful.
• When I play poker, I don't like losing the pot.
• When the show's in production, we work for three weeks at a time and then take a week off.
• You know that look women get when they want sex? Me neither.
• We'll never see national shows with 45 shares again.
• But I don't want to lose touch with things like eating in Bob's Big Boy.
• Nevada's one of the most conservative states in the Union, but you can do what you want in Vegas and nobody judges you.
• As far as your personal goals are and what you actually want to do with your life, it should never have to do with the government. You should never depend on the government for your retirement, your financial security, for anything.
• Even when people are rich and successful on TV shows, there's always some trouble - you have to poke holes in them, throw them out of a job, put a pie in the face.
• Everybody in Hollywood loves symbolic gestures.
• Hollywood people are filled with guilt: white guilt, liberal guilt, money guilt. They feel bad that they're so rich, they feel they don't work that much for all that money - and they don't, for the amount of money they make.
• I don't care if my jokes are appropriate for a kid.
• I don't miss the economic insecurity, the living paycheck to paycheck.
• Liquor prohibition led to the rise of organized crime in America, and drug prohibition has led to the rise of the gang problems we have now.
• I see my face in the mirror and go, 'I'm a Halloween costume? That's what they think of me?
• I wanted to do a show based on what my life would be like if I had never become a comedian.
• I'm competitive at everything.
• I'm not against ratings per se. I think more information is always good. But I certainly don't think the government has to step in and set guidelines for how shows should be rated.
• I love the normalcy of Cleveland. There's regular people there.