Drew Carey Quotes

I never considered game show host as a career, but it's fun because I get to inject some of my comedy into it.

No, I never really set out to be a stand up. I wanted to be a writer of some sort. I thought I'd do a bit of stand up and hopefully that will lead to stuff and little did I know it kind of snowballed. Before I knew it I was doing stand up 300 nights a year.

People ask me if I am going to leave TV, but my answer is a big 'no.'

I had a really fun career in TV right after I left politics.

I have hosted many shows in the past. Anchoring is something I really enjoy; hence, when I was offered to host the show 'Super Dancer,' I was excited to take it up.

I liked watching myself on TV. My first job was hosting the 'Roommate Game'.

Someday perhaps I'll have to get a grownup job... but for now I'm having too much fun being a reporter.

I've been a comedian since I was fourteen. But I've never really been a CEO.

I moved to Chicago and I did theater, and then I started writing and I stop acting and I did sketch. You know, I did all of the things that, if you were serious about doing television, don't do.

If I'm a game show host, will someone buy a ticket to see me do standup? To do a dramatic role in a movie?

I definitely want to act, but hosting is something that I am really enjoying. The first show I ever hosted was 'Jhalak Dikhla Ja.' I was super nervous then, but now I am very comfortable.

The journalist in me always loved relating and socialising and connecting with people, but there came a point where I needed to make a decision to stop that being my focus and really focus on acting - an audience are only really going to believe me as a character to an extent if they don't know me as Lily that well.

When the opportunity came along to do 'Win, Lose or Draw,' I took it selfishly to find out if I did enjoy being me on camera. And I did that for the last two years I was doing 'Mama's Family.'

Some people look at TV as a means to an end. I look at it as my career - and one I love.

I never in my life saw myself as a game show host. I don't want to be a traffic cop.

I had no ambition to go into show business when I was growing up. I started out as an advertising copywriter and evolved into it. Once you get into it, however, it's very difficult to get out. It gets into your blood. You don't want to do anything else. You want that excitement.

I got a chance to host the 'Late Late Show' for two nights before they hired Craig Ferguson. I enjoyed it, but nothing can replace the thrill of calling an NFC championship game or a Super Bowl or a World Series.

I'd love to host a reality show now and not be a contestant in it. I want to take a show forward.

I had three brilliant years on 'The X Factor,' and it was one of the best jobs I've ever had. 'Strictly' is completely different; it's a whole different show - I'm dancing. It's not presenting. But this is one of the best things I've done - ever.

I got into standup because I wanted to be an actor, and then I ended up loving standup for the next eleven years.

I always wanted to teach dance. I didn't know I'd have a TV career.

I love my job and my relationship with the viewers who watch my shows.

If my career isn't moving ahead I may consider TV.

I think all of this—The Roots and DJing included—was meant to prepare me for The Tonight Show.

We're in the entertainment business. As much as people would like to say it's sport, it's definitely entertainment.