Love Quote by Drew Carey

A celebrity praising “normalcy” is always a little paradoxical, and Drew Carey leans into that tension with a disarmingly plain sentence. “I love the normalcy of Cleveland” isn’t just hometown pride; it’s a strategic declaration of identity. Carey built his persona on being the guy next door - affable, self-deprecating, allergic to glamour. Cleveland becomes the proof text. Not a brand, not a mythic “heartland,” just a place where you can still be unremarkable, and that’s the point.

The follow-up - “There’s regular people there” - does a lot of quiet work. It draws a line between the entertainment economy (where every interaction is transactional, curated, and performative) and a city imagined as socially legible: people with shifts, mortgages, messy hair, errands. “Regular” doubles as a moral category. It implies decency without saying “good,” authenticity without saying “real,” and it flatters the audience by letting them occupy the higher ground over fame’s weirdness.

Context matters: Carey’s rise in the 1990s, with stand-up and The Drew Carey Show, helped mainstream a Midwestern, working-stiff sensibility at a moment when coastal cool dominated pop culture. The quote sells Cleveland as an antidote to celebrity alienation, but it also sells Carey himself: a star who hasn’t been fully absorbed by stardom. The charm is that it sounds like a throwaway line. The intent is anything but.