I do live like a rock star, but it’s not as great as it sounds. It’s a lot of traveling.
RON WHITEI believe everything creative is somewhat collaborative. If you’re a painter and someone stretches your canvas, it was collaborative on some level.
More Ron White Quotes
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I would have rather been beat by a plumber than Kathy Griffin.
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Comedy is great because there’s no overhead.
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I always wanted to be a popular comedian.
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I was so in love with the idea of making people laugh for a living that I didn’t care what I had to do to get there. Or how much money I was going to make when I did get there.
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I do a lot of gay-friendly stuff in my show, and men, women, they all love it. I practice non-judgment in my daily life and hope other people do the same thing.
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The only thing I really worry about is my live stand-up show because I have to answer to the fans.
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I was considered by my peers to be a good comedian. So that’s all I ever strived to do was get some recognition from my peers.
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I believe that a bad Super Bowl halftime show is still better than a soccer game.
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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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A lot of people can find something to laugh at in my humor, I guess.
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I begged the universe to make me a famous comedian, and it did. So I tend not to ask for any more.
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Everybody I know is a joke writer.
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People are saying that I’m an alcoholic, and that’s not true, because I only drink when I work, and I’m a workaholic.
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I didn’t get where I am today by worryin’ about how I’d feel tomorrow.
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Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty… mine’s putting in an express lane.
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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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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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You can’t fix stupid.
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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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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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There’s no backlog of people we can fire for no reason and act as if they don’t exist.
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My favorite bands are the Allman Brothers and Red Hot Chili Peppers.
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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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My uncle was a preacher, and I used to go watch him preach. He was also funny, so I’m very ‘preacher-ish’ on stage, not by intent but because that’s where I learned to talk in front of people.
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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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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.
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