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.
RON WHITEYou wanna get the truth out of me, get me hammered.
More Ron White Quotes
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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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Movies are boring. It’s like watching paint dry. I did a little role in a movie, and it was eight lines. I was there for three days. It’s just horrible.
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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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My biggest pet peeve, I guess, is other comedians criticizing Larry the Cable Guy.
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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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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 always wanted to be a popular comedian.
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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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Everybody I know is a joke writer.
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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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I was desperate for new material, so anything I can write a joke about that works is in the act. No matter who it offends, or who it bothers – doesn’t matter if its something my wife hates.
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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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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 found that the closer I got to who I really am, on stage, the more they responded to it.
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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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