Television is 15 hour days. Movies are 18 hour days. And it’s 18 hours of doing not a thing.
RON WHITEI always found that the closer I got to who I really am, on stage, the more they responded to it.
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A lot of people can find something to laugh at in my humor, I guess.
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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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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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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.
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I always found that the closer I got to who I really am, on stage, the more they responded to it.
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Diamonds – that’ll shut her up… for a minute!
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There were years when I was a beer and tequila guy, then I got real fat. And then I found that you could actually go on a diet and drink scotch. Then I got hooked on scotch, and if you get hooked on scotch, then everything else just tastes wrong.
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You can teach somebody how to be a brain surgeon, but you cannot teach them how to walk on a stage and make people laugh.
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Ultimately I’m the writer for me, but also, anytime one of my friends gets stuck with a bit, they can call me, and I’m pretty good at helping them get there.
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Here’s how I operate. When I see something I like, 20 years later, I ask her brother for her phone number. She don’t even see me coming.
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I always wanted to be a popular comedian.
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There’s not a pill you can take; there’s not a class you can go to. Stupid is forever.
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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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I get e-mail from all over the world, and from lawyers and doctors and whoever – plumbers and drywall hangers.
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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 don’t watch Comedy Central. I don’t enjoy it.
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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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That’s the beauty of being a straight-to-DVD star. It really helps you stay under the media’s radar.
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Comedy is all about the pause.
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I 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.
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Comedy is great because there’s no overhead.
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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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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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We always go out looking for live music after our shows.
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My favorite bands are the Allman Brothers and Red Hot Chili Peppers.
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