My uncle was a preacher, and I used to go watch him preach. He was also funny, so I’m very ‘preacher-ish’ on stage, not by intent but because that’s where I learned to talk in front of people.
RON WHITEDiamonds – that’ll shut her up… for a minute!
More Ron White Quotes
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I was a little one-trick pony. I do what I’ve always done. That’s really where my best stuff comes from. I don’t know how it happens. It just happens.
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Anything I write that I consider stage-quality work, I won’t give my TV show. I put it in my live show.
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Television is 15 hour days. Movies are 18 hour days. And it’s 18 hours of doing not a thing.
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I’m not the judge of who that is, but I am a believer that no debt in the universe goes unpaid. If you try to buy early, you’ll pay late.
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You wanna get the truth out of me, get me hammered.
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There have been times in my life that I’ve had a ton of vices, and my demons have run amok for years and years and years.
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I didn’t get where I am today by worryin’ about how I’d feel tomorrow.
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I don’t think we have a surplus of fine educators in this country that we can just start dropping them for no reason whatsoever.
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All I know how to do is take what’s on my mind and spit it out funny. I don’t know what else I could do besides comedy.
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I love Cincinnati, but you can keep that spaghetti chili product!
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You know, my first album, some of those jokes I’d done for twelve years because I couldn’t throw ’em out.
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You can teach somebody how to be a brain surgeon, but you cannot teach them how to walk on a stage and make people laugh.
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People, when they go on stage, tend to be animated and try to force things out instead of relaxing and bringing it in.
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Movies are boring. It’s like watching paint dry. I did a little role in a movie, and it was eight lines. I was there for three days. It’s just horrible.
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I don’t like to do material people have heard. Now, they like to hear material that they know, because that’s the stuff that made me famous, and, unfortunately, I don’t do a ton of it.
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