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.
RON WHITEYou can teach somebody how to be a brain surgeon, but you cannot teach them how to walk on a stage and make people laugh.
More Ron White Quotes
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The Majestic Theatre in San Antone is as good as it gets.
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I could do no wrong in my mother’s eyes from the day I was born. My fans bought her a very nice house in San Antonio, and she has a great life.
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The first thing I ever got my hands on was Andy Griffith’s ‘What It Was, Was Football.’ I was fascinated with the fact that every syllable made it funny, and I would laugh even though I didn’t know what any of it meant.
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I was always a funny guy. I don’t think anybody that makes it to this level of stand-up wasn’t a funny guy when they were young.
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The bulk of my fans are my age, and I’m aging at the same rate they are. That makes me relevant. They like hearing what I have to say. I work hard at it, but it’s addicting, really.
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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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Everybody I know is a joke writer.
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You wanna get the truth out of me, get me hammered.
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I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade… And try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka, and have a party.
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I think the world has their own good, clean, Christian comedy. They don’t need my help.
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I believe everything creative is somewhat collaborative.
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I always found that the closer I got to who I really am, on stage, the more they responded to it.
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I’m set up where I make a lot of money doing stand-up, and it’s easy.
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I don’t know who in my family thinks very fast at all, including me. The things that people see me do onstage are written, so it doesn’t have to be very quick if you have all day with a pen.
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There’s not a pill you can take; there’s not a class you can go to. Stupid is forever.
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