I think honest communication, no matter where it comes from, is positive for a relationship.
RON WHITEI’d rather do a really good small part than a really bad big part.
More Ron White Quotes
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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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Any time someone achieves success before they’ve earned it, it always comes back to haunt them.
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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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You 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.
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The next time you have a thought… let it go.
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Comedy is great because there’s no overhead.
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I begged the universe to make me a famous comedian, and it did. So I tend not to ask for any more.
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I’ve gathered some of my close musical and comedian friends, and we’re going to see if we can’t bring a few laughs to these soldiers, raise some money, and hopefully lift their spirits.
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My favorite bands are the Allman Brothers and Red Hot Chili Peppers.
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You wanna get the truth out of me, get me hammered.
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I didn’t get where I am today by worryin’ about how I’d feel tomorrow.
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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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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 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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A killer Cuban restaurant with a giant cigar bar. Have me a Cuban sandwich. That’s just like heaven to me. I’m a simple man.
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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 you look at the common denominator of all the comics who have had big success, it’s being true to their nature… that’s what takes a long time to learn.
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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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People are saying that I’m an alcoholic, and that’s not true, because I only drink when I work, and I’m a workaholic.
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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.
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There have been times in my life that I’ve had a ton of vices, and my demons have run amok for years and years and years.
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I’m definitely guilty of thinking something is funny but thinking the audience won’t. Then three years later I will finally try it and it’ll kill them. I got to give them more credit.
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I think the world has their own good, clean, Christian comedy. They don’t need my help.
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I have a very fun life. I don’t recommend it for anybody else, but it sure has been fun for me.
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My shows are not all-the-way filthy, but they can be.
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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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