I go to more open mic nights than open mikers.
RON WHITEI 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.
More Ron White Quotes
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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’ve gathered some of my close musical and comedian friends, and we’re going to see if we can’t bring a few laughs to these soldiers, raise some money, and hopefully lift their spirits.
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I’ve asked these guys in rock bands with all the 18-wheelers driving to the venue how they make money. I just don’t understand it. But I don’t understand a lot of things.
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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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You can’t fix stupid.
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You wanna get the truth out of me, get me hammered.
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I didn’t get where I am today by worryin’ about how I’d feel tomorrow.
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Comedy is all about the pause.
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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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Diamonds – that’ll shut her up… for a minute!
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There’s not a pill you can take; there’s not a class you can go to. Stupid is forever.
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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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Everybody I know is a joke writer.
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I believe that a bad Super Bowl halftime show is still better than a soccer game.
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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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