I still love to walk on stage and make people laugh, and I work very, very hard at it, and I take it seriously.
RON WHITEI’d rather do a really good small part than a really bad big part.
More Ron White Quotes
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A lot of people can find something to laugh at in my humor, I guess.
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Diamonds – that’ll shut her up… for a minute!
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Mother, she likes the blue material just fine.
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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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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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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 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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You 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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My opening acts are always really strong because I need a guy who can take on a big, big crowd. Which is not that easy to do.
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The only thing I really worry about is my live stand-up show because I have to answer to the fans.
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I was talking to a guy who was holding his 18-month-old daughter with the only limb he had left, and he had a smile on his face. I thought, ‘I’m not even a 10th of this man.’
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If I sit down to write a joke about, whatever, the polluted Gulf of Mexico, it comes out mundane to me.
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People, when they go on stage, tend to be animated and try to force things out instead of relaxing and bringing it in.
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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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If I see someone out there mouthing the words to a bit, I’m not having fun.
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