Drew Carey Quotes

Dream big and surround yourself with brilliance, even if you end up dressed up like a flower or a sexually transmitted disease.

This is what I always tell my filmmakers-you have to do tons of research, because you don't know where the inspiration is going come from.

Eh, it's not that attractive to have a plan. I know that if I ever feel that I need to make a funny movie, I’ll figure out how to write one. I’ll get it done. If I ever get some ambition, I’m gonna get some shit done.

There's a joke in everything, the trick is finding it. The best compliment a joke can get is what Huxley said about Darwin's theory of evolution - 'Why didn't I think of that?'

So remember these two things: you are talented and you are original. Be sure of that. I say this because self-trust is one of the very most important things in writing.

Go ahead, do something impossible.

I feel my greatest work is yet to come.

I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.

Sometimes when an idea flashes, you distrust it because it seems too easy. You qualify it with all kinds of evasive phrases because you’re timid about it. But often, this turns out to be the best idea of all.

I want to really take chances. I want to be funny in a lot of different ways. I'd like to be great. I want to reach for greatness.

If you worry about how good the art is, you're never going to make your own art.

By the way, I'm not just one man with a chalkboard. I'm one man with four chalkboards.

Occasionally, there arises a writing situation where you see an alternative to what you are doing, a mad, wild gamble of a way for handling something, which may leave you looking stupid, ridiculous or brilliant -you just don't know which. You can play it safe there, too, and proceed along the route you'd mapped out for yourself. Or you can trust your personal demon who delivered that crazy idea in the first place. Trust your demon.

It's important not to base your ambition on anybody else's history, but to figure out how best to use your own particular personality and understanding of yourself to help tell other people's stories.

If I were to write my title like going through the airport and you have to put down what you do? I would literally write ‘creative genius’.

Where do you come up with these zingers, Clint? Do you own some kind of joke factory in Indonesia where you've got eight-year-olds working ninety hours a week to deliver you that kind of top-quality witticism? There are boy bands with more original material.

With imagination, I'll get there.

Only you know what you're trying to accomplish. Any time you're thinking about whether someone's going to like this or not like this, you're f**ked. You've made the decision based in fear. Fear is the cancer to creativity.

Success in the movies has pushed me to places I didn't know I was allowed to go.

Who cares about pretty? I'm going for noticeable.

There’s a great expression in Twelve Step programs: Act as if. Act as if you’re a writer. Sit down and begin. Act as if you might just create something beautiful, and by beautiful I mean something authentic and universal. Don’t wait for anybody to tell you it’s okay. Take that shimmer and show us our humanity. That’s your job.

Ingenuity and incongruity always cheer me up.

People build themselves up before you even have to deal with them.

Trust your creativity.

There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray.