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.
RON WHITEI believe that a bad Super Bowl halftime show is still better than a soccer game.
More Ron White Quotes
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I go to more open mic nights than open mikers.
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I’m set up where I make a lot of money doing stand-up, and it’s easy.
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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’ve never been one to look up the ladder. I’ve always looked down the ladder. As long as there’s one guy down there, I’m fine.
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The next time you have a thought… let it go.
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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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Comedy is great because there’s no overhead.
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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 first thing I ever got my hands on was Andy Griffith’s ‘What It Was, Was Football.’ I was fascinated with the fact that every syllable made it funny, and I would laugh even though I didn’t know what any of it meant.
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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 believe everything creative is somewhat collaborative.
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My show is more storytelling now than it’s ever been. It’s what I’m good at.
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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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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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Mother, she likes the blue material just fine.
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