Quotes By Drew Carey

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

I wanted to do a show based on what my life would be like if I had never become a comedian.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

When I thought I was retired, I wanted to travel around the world and watch soccer games.

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

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

Nothing's funny about someone who's successful.

Libertarians are essentially what the Republicans were 30 years ago. Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan. They'd all fit more under the Libertarian label than the modern day Republican label.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

The Marines gave me a really strong sense of discipline and a work ethic that kicks in at my job.

The people of Cleveland hate soccer. But it's my favourite thing and I follow the U.S. men's national team around when they play whenever I can.

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