I believe that a bad Super Bowl halftime show is still better than a soccer game.
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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Let’s face it: a lot of my material comes from the stuff that happens to me on the road.
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If I sit down to write a joke about, whatever, the polluted Gulf of Mexico, it comes out mundane to me.
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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 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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The only way to stay sharp is to do live shows. There is no part-time comedy.
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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’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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Comedy is all about the pause.
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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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Comedy is great because there’s no overhead.
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My goal is just to become a better comedian.
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I’ve got a great cigar collection – it’s actually not a collection, because that would imply I wasn’t going to smoke every last one of ’em.
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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 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 don’t watch Comedy Central. I don’t enjoy it.
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