Drew Carey Quotes

#1. I could still eat a cheeseburger if I wanted to. I just can't have them every day.

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#2. Being a celebrity you always get really good seats to sporting events but you never get as good seats as the photographers get. And I really love sports. So one of the scams I have going now is I want to learn sports photography so I can get better seats at a sporting event.

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#3. I don't run outside, honestly. Sometimes I go out around my house, but mainly it's the stupid treadmill. I wish I had a better answer, but I'm very businesslike about my runs.

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#4. I'm competitive at everything.

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#5. We'll never see national shows with 45 shares again.

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#6. Yeah, apparently chasing a bus uses different muscles than sitting and eating.

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#7. I've always got stuff in my head in case I meet somebody like Steven Spielberg or someone like that, where I can hopefully say something to them that nobody else has ever said and get a laugh out of them.

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#8. You know that look women get when they want sex? Me neither.

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#9. I learned how to believe in myself. Learned how to set goals, you know, self help books man. I just read every single one I can get a hold of, and I still do.

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#10. I think a lot of people are afraid of freedom. They want their lives to be controlled, to be put into a box ... Why should someone put a limit on how much fun I can have, how much I can accomplish?

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#11. 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.

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#12. I love Las Vegas. I like that Las Vegas has everything. Everything and anything you want to do, you can do in Las Vegas.

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#13. I like to think of my house as nothing more than a glorified console for my television; the ultimate stereo cabinet.

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#14. At 'Price Is Right,' people feel so safe there and loved. And if you can't jump around on 'Price is Right,' then you can't jump around anywhere, you know?

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#15. 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.

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#16. I see my face in the mirror and go, 'I'm a Halloween costume? That's what they think of me?'

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#17. Why is everybody afraid of going to Heaven? You want to be here with the smog and the sin and bad people and the war? Or do you want to be in Heaven, sitting next to Jesus, you know?

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#18. The easiest diet is, you know, eat vegetables, eat fresh food. Just a really sensible healthy diet like you read about all the time.

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#19. I tried out for 'Jeopardy' once, when they came to Cleveland, but I didn't make it.

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#20. My fans are pretty normal, they are always really nice and polite, and they don't interrupt my meals.

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#21. I looked at game show hosting as the bottom of the totem pole, one step away from infomercials. I never watched them myself. However, it's been a lot of fun.

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#22. What also helps our show is that we never take ourselves seriously.

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#23. I've got to say that I don't see myself as some sort of political type like Alec Baldwin or Barbra Streisand. I don't want to come across like that. I'd be embarrassed if that was the way I came across.

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#24. I always run in the morning on an empty stomach, and I'll go through a bottle and a half of water. Then I have a protein drink or I eat egg whites.

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#25. I don't have a Bluetooth thing on my ear. That bugs me.

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#26. Eating crappy food isn't a reward -- it's a punishment.

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#27. When asked if he enjoys being famous: Sometimes I like it, sometimes I don't. I've always been a people watcher. I like to go to malls and just sit, and I can't do that very easily anymore.

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#28. I moved from Cleveland to L.A. with a girlfriend, we broke up, and I lived out of my car for a year and a half, on the road with nothing on my mind but getting my act good enough to be on 'The Tonight Show.'

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#29. My cranky cardiologist says I'm destined to die in the kitchen.

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#30. But sports photography isn't something you just pick up overnight. You can't do it once a year for fun and expect to do a good job. And I take pride in what I do.

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#31. There is no such thing as too much fun. People need to know it is O.K. to tell jokes and be happy.

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#32. I was in the band when I was a kid, I played the trumpet.

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#33. Violence doesn't solve anything? World War I. World War II. Star Wars. Every Super Bowl. Who says violence doesn't solve anything?

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#34. Like I said, all comedy is based on exaggeration, big or small, whatever you can get away with.

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#35. I don't care if my jokes are appropriate for a kid.

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#36. I'm the kind of person that likes what I'm doing when I'm doing it.

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#37. There's no way I can justify my salary level, but I'm learning to live with it.

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#38. I'm down to earth; people sense that and they appreciate it.

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#39. I just liked stand-up comedy so much. I used to memorize Bill Cosby albums and other people's albums, George Carlin, Flip Wilson.

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#40. You know what I worry about? I worry that when I hit my head, it pushes my hair into my brain, and it will eventually kill me.

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#41. I actually was worried about the pounding, but I actually love running more than working out on the elliptical. Now if I get on the elliptical, I feel like I'm trapped.

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#42. Funniest thing happened though, you wouldn't believe it, ha, the mannequins came to life. I went insane.

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#43. I just try to get people to laugh - I'm not trying to change the world or anything.

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#44. I don't miss the economic insecurity, the living paycheck to paycheck.

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#45. I loved the old stories in National Lampoon, like the original story the movie Vacation was based on. I used to laugh at them until I cried.

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#46. I'm a big believer in overcoming and achieving and doing things and not feeling sorry for yourself.

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#47. It should be up to each bar owner and patron to decide if they want to smoke or not.

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#48. As far as exercising goes ... watch for my next book, How I died while Jogging.

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#49. Isn't it amazing that the Germans call their city halls 'rat houses'? That's what we should call our city halls!

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#50. It doesn't matter how smart you are; to audition for 'Jeopardy,' you just have to luck out and know what they're asking you that day.

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#51. I was just sick of being fat, you know? You get sick of it. It just really, it's a tiring lifestyle to have.

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#52. The hardest diet I was ever on was the one when I was fat. You can only wear fat clothes, you don't feel good, your sex life gets damaged, you don't have energy for anything. It's horrible.

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#53. 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.

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#54. Boy, a drive-through liquor store. God bless America! A place where you can drive through and buy whiskey, beer ... just the thing for that drunk driver who's constantly on the go. Cant stop now! I've got places to go, people to hit!

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#55. I work with a place in Santa Monica called Phase IV. My doctor recommended them to me when I started losing weight. They help people train for things like triathlons or biking and running races. They offer physical therapists, testing, lectures.

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#56. The Marines was a fresh start - that is why they shave your head. I wish they would let you change your name.

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#57. Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so?
There's a support group for that. It's called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar.

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#58. When I'm working, I'm going to avoid all media. No newspapers, no magazines, no movies, no radio, no TV. I'm just going to do creative work.

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#59. It isn't premarital sex if you have no intention of getting married.

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#60. The first Monopoly game I played with my brothers, I hated losing so much, I just had to beat them.

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#61. Living in Hollywood, you can get disconnected from everybody. You can feel like you are the only one.

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#62. 'The Price Is Right,' it was an honor to be offered it because it's such an American institution. To be able to carry on this tradition with a show that has been on for so long, I thought it was a great opportunity for me.

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#63. 'Green Screen' was a total experiment. I'm glad we did it, but it was just tough on that network to get it going.

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#64. For 'Power of 10,' you can look at the methodology at CBS, it's a company called Rasmussen Reports. We poll thousands and thousands of people for each question, a real cross section of the United States.

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#65. I used to go to the Cleveland Comedy Club all the time. If there was a comic I liked, I'd go see him two or three times that week. Bob Saget was one of those guys.

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#66. I can't do that. I'm already the single guy living in his parents' house. I can't be seen digging a grave in the middle of the night.

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#67. But I don't want to lose touch with things like eating in Bob's Big Boy.

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#68. 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. If you do, you're screwed.

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#69. I'm not a good lover, but at least I'm fast.

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#70. Nothing's funny about someone who's successful.

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#71. Some people don't like competition because it makes them work harder, better.

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#72. And for you kids watching at home, remember, the less homework you do and the closer you sit to the TV, the more points you get.

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#73. Oh, and once, when I was in the Marines, I got a perfect score on my physical fitness test.

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#74. I think that if anyone bothered to take a survey, they would find a sharp decline in atheism during the winters in Cleveland, Ohio.

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#75. Things don't make me nearly as happy as talking and having a beer with my friends. And that's something everyone can do.

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#76. When I play poker, I don't like losing the pot.

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#77. I never thought I was a libertarian until I picked up Reason magazine and realized I agree with everything they had printed.

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#78. When the show's in production, we work for three weeks at a time and then take a week off.

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#79. Exercise is the main thing that helped me lose weight.

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#80. I remember when I took a temp job ... so I got a job at a department store. Something temporary to put on my resume, my parents said. Yeah ... till I die!

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#81. I always thought I was going to die before I was 60.

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#82. International soccer has been a big part of my love for the sport. I love the Men's National Team. I can say that they're my favorite sports team.

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#83. I do get the comics online I guess but it's such a pain. I'd rather just get them in the paper and read them.

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#84. There's a game called Checkout where there's grocery items and it's how much you think the manufacturer's suggested retail price is and we add up your total, then your total has to be within $2 of the regular total. I don't think I could ever win that game.

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#85. 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.

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#86. I don't think there's hardly a comic out there that does clean material all the way around. There's a couple of guys that are clean, but I'm not one of them.

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#87. Welcome to 'Who's Line Is It Anyway' the show where everything's made up and the points don't matter. That's right the points are just like Canada.

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#88. I am happy that I ran the half-marathon, but to me, just running and saying that I finished a race isn't enough for me. I want to run the race as best as I can. Working out for pants size isn't enough. I need a goal or a race to get back on the treadmill every day.

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#89. I honestly think that it automatically hurts me if I said that I supported the war in Iraq and I support the troops. That automatically kills me for getting a bunch of movies, a bunch of TV shows. People don't want to hear from me.

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#90. I am never out there just jogging for the heck of it. I never do that. I start to run with a goal in mind, whether it's a certain time or certain distance or a specific heart-rate goal, and then I am done.

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#91. Vegas is everything that's right with America. You can do whatever you want, 24 hours a day. They've effectively legalized everything there.

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#92. 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.

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#93. Who ever thought that the world-famous Captain Obvious was really mild-mannered Colin Mochrie?

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#94. There's nothing like the energy in a small comedy club room or a small theater when it's going really well. I can see everybody's face practically in the whole room. There's no cameras in the way, and it's just me.

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#95. TV is easier: it's all planned out for you, and the audience is there to see a show and they are all pumped up, but when you are in a comedy club, you have to be really funny to win them over. To me, that's more pure.

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#96. I used to go to the library all the time when I was kid. As a teenager, I got a book on how to write jokes at the library, and that, in turn, launched my comedy career.

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#97. What good is democracy if you can't get what you want?

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#98. I don't do one show and wish I was doing something else.

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#99. Listen, you don't know any better so I'll just tell you. You can't try to save money by not having the right beer. You know, you can skip having medical insurance, you can buy everything you own at a swap meet but the right beer is what makes living like this possible.

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#100. I don't know, people take chances on stage. It's a big free speech zone, a comedy show. So sometimes things happen, you say things that are a little bit off the edge.

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