Anybody could say anything they want about me, and it literally never penetrates my skin.
RON WHITEIt 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 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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My goal is just to become a better comedian.
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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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I would have rather been beat by a plumber than Kathy Griffin.
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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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If I see someone out there mouthing the words to a bit, I’m not having fun.
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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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I still love to walk on stage and make people laugh, and I work very, very hard at it, and I take it seriously.
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But I work harder now because I have so much more exposure. And actually the harder you work as a writer, the better you get at it. It’s like anything else. It’s a muscle you have to exercise. I write more now than ever.
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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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There are two kinds of comics; there are the ones who build bridges, and then there are the people who walk across the bridges as though they built them. The bridge builders are few and far between.
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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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Anything I write that I consider stage-quality work, I won’t give my TV show. I put it in my live show.
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My biggest pet peeve, I guess, is other comedians criticizing Larry the Cable Guy.
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Everybody I know is a joke writer.
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