I was a comedy fan when I was a little kid.
RON WHITEYou 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.
More Ron White Quotes
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The Majestic Theatre in San Antone is as good as it gets.
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Comedy is great because there’s no overhead.
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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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I had the right to remain silent… but I didn’t have the ability.
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I go through about 140 cities a year.
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Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty… mine’s putting in an express lane.
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Pace, rhythm and timing. Pace, rhythm and timing is what it’s about. The content’s got to be great, but then it’s got to be delivered. It’s a tricky thing to do, and it takes a lot of work.
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It went from Bob Newhart to Flip Wilson to Bill Cosby to Richard Pryor to George Carlin to Cheech and Chong. I had all these records.
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But I work harder now because I have so much more exposure. And actually the harder you work as a writer, the better you get at it. It’s like anything else. It’s a muscle you have to exercise. I write more now than ever.
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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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TV is a hard job. You work 15 hours a day. People tell you what to do. I hate to do it.
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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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Diamonds – that’ll shut her up… for a minute!
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I was a huge fan of comedy when I was a child.
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