Happy Birthday actor Drew Carey

Born: Drew Allison Carey
May 23, 1958 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Quotes:

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.”

Responding to a question about his childhood: “Weirdo. Weirdo. Underachiever. Weirdo. Weirdo.”

On government: The less the better. 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.

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.

(In 2007, on succeeding Bob Barker as host of The Price Is Right (1972)) This show fits me like an old shoe, I’m telling you, I love doing it, I’m really happy here, I feel like I belong here, audience certainly feels like I belong.

You can buy liquor in a drive-thru store, but you can’t smoke a joint in your own damn house.

[on Johnny Carson] If he liked you a lot, he would wave you over. I’m not even saying this is a joke but people talk about the feeling of the Holy Spirit going through you and your body that something’s changed in your life forever. Being called over to the couch on the ‘Johnny Carson Show’ was the closest I came to that.

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. We try out new things and keep a lot of the classic elements people remember. I enjoy getting to know new people and seeing them win.
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.