Top 149 Quotes & Sayings by Drew Carey - Page 2

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Last updated on November 22, 2024.
I don't have a Bluetooth thing on my ear. That bugs me.
I was just sick of being fat, you know? You get sick of it. It just really, it's a tiring lifestyle to have.
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. — © Drew Carey
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.
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.
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.
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?
If I wasn't a comic or TV star, I really wanted to be a photojournalist. That was my other dream job.
Oh, and once, when I was in the Marines, I got a perfect score on my physical fitness test.
After all, game shows are not like working in a coal mine.
I'd buy joke books and try doing them at school; I always had jokes. That would be my go-to thing at parties: I'd be able to get through them if I just told enough jokes. Otherwise, I wouldn't end up talking to anybody.
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?
Reality shows always look for the worst people.
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.
If you're wearing a Bluetooth thing and you've got that thing on your belt, you are working for somebody else. You are not the guy in charge. That's a really good social status indicator.
I love doing 'The Price is Right.' It's so much fun. I love meeting everybody and giving out prizes, especially when it's not my money. It's really a happy place, and everybody is all jazzed up.
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.
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.
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.
I could still eat a cheeseburger if I wanted to. I just can't have them every day. — © Drew Carey
I could still eat a cheeseburger if I wanted to. I just can't have them every day.
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.'
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.
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.
Exercise is the main thing that helped me lose weight.
Living in Hollywood, you can get disconnected from everybody. You can feel like you are the only one.
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.
'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.
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.
For 'Power of 10,' you can look at the methodology at CBS.com, 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.
I'm never afraid to die. I think that's the best thing that can happen to somebody is they get to move on and do something better.
George Carlin is kind of my template now because George Carlin before was straight laced regular comic and he had short hair, a tie, suit, nightclub guy. Then he said screw it, let his hair grow, just started telling what he thought was the truth. So that's what I'm trying to do.
My fans are pretty normal, they are always really nice and polite, and they don't interrupt my meals.
I was in the band when I was a kid, I played the trumpet.
Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan. They'd all fit more under the Libertarian label than the modern day Republican label.
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.
I tried out for 'Jeopardy' once, when they came to Cleveland, but I didn't make it.
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.
Things don't make me nearly as happy as talking and having a beer with my friends. And that's something everyone can do.
What good is democracy if you can't get what you want? — © Drew Carey
What good is democracy if you can't get what you want?
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.
Libertarians are conservatives who still get high.
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.
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.
Yeah, apparently chasing a bus uses different muscles than sitting and eating.
I think that if anyone bothered to take a survey, they would find a sharp decline in atheism during the winters in Cleveland, Ohio.
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?
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!
The only way I'd need a pain reliever to enjoy sex is if all of my fantasies came true at the same time.
If frogs could fly... well we'd still be in this mess, but wouldn't it be neat?
There is no such thing as too much fun. People need to know it is O.K. to tell jokes and be happy.
As far as exercising goes... watch for my next book, How I died while Jogging.
I'm not a good lover, but at least I'm fast.
On other shows when they get to the end of the scene, they yell 'Cut!' On Whose Line, we yell 'That's Enough!'
I was raised by just my mom. See, my father died when I was eight years old. At least, that's what he told us in the letter.
I like to think of my house as nothing more than a glorified console for my television; the ultimate stereo cabinet. — © Drew Carey
I like to think of my house as nothing more than a glorified console for my television; the ultimate stereo cabinet.
I wish I could end every rap song I didn't like with a buzzer.
Learn how to set goals. That's the key to everything. That includes designing your own success. You define what the goal is, it's not somebody else's goal, it's yours.
In any other job, they're truck drivers. In show-biz, they're Transportation Captains.
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.
Every election I have to hold my nose to vote.
You say tomato, I say bourbon and coke.
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