I’ve asked these guys in rock bands with all the 18-wheelers driving to the venue how they make money. I just don’t understand it. But I don’t understand a lot of things.
RON WHITEThe only way to stay sharp is to do live shows. There is no part-time comedy.
More Ron White Quotes
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I consider it an honor and a privilege to give back however I can for the many sacrifices of these incredibly brave men and women.
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I write all of my material. It’s all me.
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I get e-mail from all over the world, and from lawyers and doctors and whoever – plumbers and drywall hangers.
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I guarantee there’s people who watch television who have no idea how complicated it is to make a television show.
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If I’m not in the theatre, I’m in an open mic night or doing a guest set at the Comedy Club, or whatever, just trying to develop stuff.
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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.
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Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty… mine’s putting in an express lane.
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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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I still love to walk on stage and make people laugh, and I work very, very hard at it, and I take it seriously.
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My goal is just to become a better comedian.
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There’s no backlog of people we can fire for no reason and act as if they don’t exist.
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My show is more storytelling now than it’s ever been. It’s what I’m good at.
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Comedy is great because there’s no overhead.
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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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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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People are saying that I’m an alcoholic, and that’s not true, because I only drink when I work, and I’m a workaholic.
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I really understood a lot more about comedy after listening to Bill Hicks, who died at 32 years old. He’s probably the best comedian who ever lived. Although you can’t say that because of Carlin, Cosby and Pryor.
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If you become famous and don’t have a live show to back it up, they’re not going to pay you any money.
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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 was considered by my peers to be a good comedian. So that’s all I ever strived to do was get some recognition from my peers.
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You can tell on-stage when a joke’s starting to lose its pop. It doesn’t mean people don’t want to hear it anymore; it means I don’t want to do it anymore. Because I want to move on to something that has a knee-jerk reaction just like you get when you tell somebody a joke that they’ve never heard.
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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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Diamonds – that’ll shut her up… for a minute!
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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 go through about 140 cities a year.
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You can’t fix stupid.
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