People, when they go on stage, tend to be animated and try to force things out instead of relaxing and bringing it in.
RON WHITEI begged the universe to make me a famous comedian, and it did. So I tend not to ask for any more.
More Ron White Quotes
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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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I started selling out comedy clubs before I got to town with no advertising. I was selling out theaters just on the rumor that I was going to be there.
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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 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’ve been married a few times. I’m not good at it.
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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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There’s no backlog of people we can fire for no reason and act as if they don’t exist.
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I was a huge fan of comedy when I was a child.
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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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Let’s face it: a lot of my material comes from the stuff that happens to me on the road.
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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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I do live like a rock star, but it’s not as great as it sounds. It’s a lot of traveling.
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Diamonds – that’ll shut her up… for a minute!
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