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Drew Carey
American
Actor
About the author
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.
Drew Carey,
American
Actor
#Honor
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.
Drew Carey,
American
Actor
#Support
#Job
#Hate
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.
Drew Carey,
American
Actor
#People
#Forget
Some people don't like competition because it makes them work harder, better.
Drew Carey,
American
Actor
#People
#Work
#Competition
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.
Drew Carey,
American
Actor
#People
#Work
#Friends
#Environment
#Company
The first Monopoly game I played with my brothers, I hated losing so much, I just had to beat them.
Drew Carey,
American
Actor
#First
#Losing
#Brothers
There's no way I can justify my salary level, but I'm learning to live with it.
Drew Carey,
American
Actor
#Learning
Vegas is everything that's right with America. You can do whatever you want, 24 hours a day. They've effectively legalized everything there.
Drew Carey,
American
Actor
#Want
#Right
#Day
#America
What also helps our show is that we never take ourselves seriously.
Drew Carey,
American
Actor
Nothing's funny about someone who's successful.
Drew Carey,
American
Actor
#Successful
#Nothing
#Funny
When I play poker, I don't like losing the pot.
Drew Carey,
American
Actor
#Play
#Losing
#Poker
When the show's in production, we work for three weeks at a time and then take a week off.
Drew Carey,
American
Actor
#Time
#Work
#Production
You know that look women get when they want sex? Me neither.
Drew Carey,
American
Actor
#Want
#Women
#Sex
Like I said, all comedy is based on exaggeration, big or small, whatever you can get away with.
Drew Carey,
American
Actor
#Comedy
#Exaggeration
We'll never see national shows with 45 shares again.
Drew Carey,
American
Actor
But I don't want to lose touch with things like eating in Bob's Big Boy.
Drew Carey,
American
Actor
#Want
#Eating
Nevada's one of the most conservative states in the Union, but you can do what you want in Vegas and nobody judges you.
Drew Carey,
American
Actor
#Want
#Conservative
#Judges
#states
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.
Drew Carey,
American
Actor
#Want
#Life
#Security
#Goals
#Government
#Retirement
#Financial
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.
Drew Carey,
American
Actor
#People
#Successful
#Trouble
#Job
Everybody in Hollywood loves symbolic gestures.
Drew Carey,
American
Actor
#Hollywood
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.
Drew Carey,
American
Actor
#People
#Work
#Hollywood
#Money
#Guilt
#Liberal
I don't care if my jokes are appropriate for a kid.
Drew Carey,
American
Actor
#Jokes
#Care
I don't miss the economic insecurity, the living paycheck to paycheck.
Drew Carey,
American
Actor
#Living
#Insecurity
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.
Drew Carey,
American
Actor
#Now
#Problems
#Crime
#Liquor
#America
#Prohibition
I see my face in the mirror and go, 'I'm a Halloween costume? That's what they think of me?
Drew Carey,
American
Actor
I wanted to do a show based on what my life would be like if I had never become a comedian.
Drew Carey,
American
Actor
#Life
I'm competitive at everything.
Drew Carey,
American
Actor
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.
Drew Carey,
American
Actor
#Government
#Information
I love the normalcy of Cleveland. There's regular people there.
Drew Carey,
American
Actor
#Love
#People