It never dawned on me that I had the option of becoming a comedian. I come from a little dirt street town in northwest Texas, and they really don’t talk about the arts there much on career day.
RON WHITEYou know, my first album, some of those jokes I’d done for twelve years because I couldn’t throw ’em out.
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I go through about 140 cities a year.
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I believe everything creative is somewhat collaborative. If you’re a painter and someone stretches your canvas, it was collaborative on some level.
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My brain is like a cross between a colander and a Lazy Susan – thin, slow, and it leaks.
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Comedy is all about the pause.
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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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The Majestic Theatre in San Antone is as good as it gets.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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The way my brain processes information is quite odd. I mean, I have Attention Deficit Disorder and another learning disability I can’t even spell. I don’t even have a high school diploma. I’m smart, but you can’t prove it on paper.
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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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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’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 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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