Tim Allen

As a kid, Tim loved Pixie Sticks. He would open them up and even pour it in a 12-ounce bottle of coke.

Tim quit alcohol altogether in 1998, when he entered a rehabilitation clinic in California.

Tim is Episcopalian.

Tim is very interested in quantum physics.

Tim auctioned off his prized 1955 Chevy Novad on eBay for the September 11th/Twin Towers fund.

Tim is actively involved in the national YMCA and played a huge role in the refurbishing of the organization's facility in Hollywood.

Tim has loved creating art since he was kid. Allen took several art classes in school.

Tim compared the ending of his long-lasting sitcom, Home Improvement to the finale of Seinfeld and the retirement of the NBA's great Michael Jordan.

Tim says the comedians that make him laugh the most are Victor Borge, Jonathan Winters, and Richard Pryor.

2008 was the first time Tim produced, directed, and starred in the same film. He did so in Crazy on the Outside.

In 1998, Tim Allen received an honorary degree and the Distinguished Alumni Award from Western Michigan University, his alma mater.

In one week of 1994, Tim Allen starred in the #1 rated television show, Home Improvement, and the #1 box office smash hit movie, The Santa Clause. Not only that, but his novel, Don't Stand Too Close To A Naked Man, was America's top selling book.

Tim and his current wife, Jane Hajduk, were wed in front of three generations of their families.

Tim wrote his first book, Don't Stand Too Close To A Naked Man, in 1994.

Tim's performance in Home Improvement led him to his winning of the People's Choice Award for Favorite Male Television Perform eight years in a row, starting in 1992.

His show, Home Improvement, was based on an half-hour special on the Showtime Channel he hosted called Men are Pigs.

Tim dropped his original last name, Dick, when producers of a talk show he worked for told him they were uncomfortable flashing his name on the screen.

Tim took a job as a creative director for an advertising firm in Detroit after he graduated from Western Michigan University.

While attending Western Michigan University, Tim was active with WIDR, the university's student radio station.

In college, Tim split his minor with Philosophy and Design.

Tim was his school's class clown.

Tim developed his first passion for cars in high school, when he started drag racing down Woodward Avenue in Birmingham, Michigan.

In 1995, Tim Allen won a Golden Globe award for best performance by an actor in a TV series in Home Improvement.

He was offered 1 million dollars per episode to do Home Improvement for one more season. He thought about it, but eventually said no.

Tim has nine brothers and sisters.