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.
RON WHITEIt went from Bob Newhart to Flip Wilson to Bill Cosby to Richard Pryor to George Carlin to Cheech and Chong. I had all these records.
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The Majestic Theatre in San Antone is as good as it gets.
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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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Any time someone achieves success before they’ve earned it, it always comes back to haunt them.
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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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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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I’d rather do a really good small part than a really bad big part.
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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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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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As long as I stay engaged with everybody else, then I’ll create more comedy. It’s just when I shut off and stay at home… What helps me is just to keep moving.
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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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All I know how to do is take what’s on my mind and spit it out funny. I don’t know what else I could do besides comedy.
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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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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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All of my comedian friends are some of the best joke writers in the world.
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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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