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 WHITEI 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.
More Ron White Quotes
-
-
I do live like a rock star, but it’s not as great as it sounds. It’s a lot of traveling.
RON WHITE -
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.
RON WHITE -
I don’t do talk shows or go on Dr. Phil’s show. He’s a friend of mine, and, no, he doesn’t give me any advice. He doesn’t give solicited advice.
RON WHITE -
I get e-mail from all over the world, and from lawyers and doctors and whoever – plumbers and drywall hangers.
RON WHITE -
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.
RON WHITE -
There’s no backlog of people we can fire for no reason and act as if they don’t exist.
RON WHITE -
Comedy is all about the pause.
RON WHITE -
The only thing I really worry about is my live stand-up show because I have to answer to the fans.
RON WHITE -
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.
RON WHITE -
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.
RON WHITE -
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 WHITE -
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.
RON WHITE -
I always found that the closer I got to who I really am, on stage, the more they responded to it.
RON WHITE -
You know, my first album, some of those jokes I’d done for twelve years because I couldn’t throw ’em out.
RON WHITE -
If I see someone out there mouthing the words to a bit, I’m not having fun.
RON WHITE