If you look at the common denominator of all the comics who have had big success, it’s being true to their nature… that’s what takes a long time to learn.
RON WHITEMy goal is just to become a better comedian.
More Ron White Quotes
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A lot of people can find something to laugh at in my humor, I guess.
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I was desperate for new material, so anything I can write a joke about that works is in the act. No matter who it offends, or who it bothers – doesn’t matter if its something my wife hates.
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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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I love Cincinnati, but you can keep that spaghetti chili product!
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If you watch the ‘Blue Collar Comedy Tour,’ don’t expect that when you come see me by myself, ’cause it’s a little rougher.
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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 favorite bands are the Allman Brothers and Red Hot Chili Peppers.
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Anybody could say anything they want about me, and it literally never penetrates my skin.
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I’ve never been one to look up the ladder. I’ve always looked down the ladder. As long as there’s one guy down there, I’m fine.
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There’s no idea or concept in comedy you could do that hasn’t been attacked from some angle. But if you start leaving punchlines out so you’ll look cool, I don’t get that. But I don’t watch standup anyway, so I don’t know what they’re doing.
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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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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 don’t watch Comedy Central. I don’t enjoy it.
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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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I was by far the least popular of the Blue Collar crew when we started. There was a definite pecking order, and everybody knew it.
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I was talking to a guy who was holding his 18-month-old daughter with the only limb he had left, and he had a smile on his face. I thought, ‘I’m not even a 10th of this man.’
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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’ve got a role in the new Billy Bob Thornton movie that Billy Bob wrote and is going to direct called ‘Jayne Mansfield’s Car.’ I only have four scenes, but I have as much dialogue as anybody in the movie.
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I’m definitely guilty of thinking something is funny but thinking the audience won’t. Then three years later I will finally try it and it’ll kill them. I got to give them more credit.
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I have a very fun life. I don’t recommend it for anybody else, but it sure has been fun for me.
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I would have rather been beat by a plumber than Kathy Griffin.
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There have been times when I played more than others, but I’ve been a road comic for a quarter of a century, so I’ve always played golf on the road because you have a lot of time to kill.
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I had the right to remain silent… but I didn’t have the ability.
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My life has been wild enough to derive all of the stories you need out of it. I’ve been through many, many years of behavioral problems, so I don’t really look outside for stories.
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There are two kinds of comics; there are the ones who build bridges, and then there are the people who walk across the bridges as though they built them. The bridge builders are few and far between.
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Think of The Rontourage as the Ron White Channel, where you can see us getting into trouble in all kinds of different places.
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