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.
RON WHITEComedy is all about the pause.
More Ron White Quotes
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I didn’t get where I am today by worryin’ about how I’d feel tomorrow.
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The Majestic Theatre in San Antone is as good as it gets.
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It 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 always wanted to be a popular comedian.
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If you become famous and don’t have a live show to back it up, they’re not going to pay you any money.
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I’d rather do a really good small part than a really bad big part.
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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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I write these shows one joke at a time. There’s no continuity. I do try to figure an order to the stories, but there’s not continuity.
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I don’t watch Comedy Central. I don’t enjoy 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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I think the world has their own good, clean, Christian comedy. They don’t need my help.
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I was a little one-trick pony. I do what I’ve always done. That’s really where my best stuff comes from. I don’t know how it happens. It just happens.
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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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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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My life has been wild enough to derive all of the stories you need out of it. I’ve been through many, many years of behavioral problems, so I don’t really look outside for stories.
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