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.
RON WHITEThere’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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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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I think honest communication, no matter where it comes from, is positive for a relationship.
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Diamonds – that’ll shut her up… for a minute!
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Somebody the other day had a review, called me ‘America’s reprobate.’ And I don’t even know what that means, but I kinda like the way it sounds.
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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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I’ve been married a few times. I’m not good at it.
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I love Cincinnati, but you can keep that spaghetti chili product!
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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 believe that a bad Super Bowl halftime show is still better than a soccer game.
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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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Here’s how I operate. When I see something I like, 20 years later, I ask her brother for her phone number. She don’t even see me coming.
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Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty… mine’s putting in an express lane.
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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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I go through about 140 cities a year.
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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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