Quotes from Drew Carey

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.'

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

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.

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

I had no problem going into retirement mode, ... I do what other retired guys do. I putter around the house and travel.

Trust me, kids - your homework can wait. Don't need to be doing homework while Whose Line is on; skip it!

'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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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?

Nevada's one of the most conservative states in the Union, but you can do what you want in Vegas and nobody judges you.

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

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?

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

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