There’s not a pill you can take; there’s not a class you can go to. Stupid is forever.
RON WHITEThe only way to stay sharp is to do live shows. There is no part-time comedy.
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 didn’t get where I am today by worryin’ about how I’d feel tomorrow.
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I’d rather do a really good small part than a really bad big part.
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My biggest pet peeve, I guess, is other comedians criticizing Larry the Cable Guy.
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I always wanted to be a popular comedian.
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I’m not the judge of who that is, but I am a believer that no debt in the universe goes unpaid. If you try to buy early, you’ll pay late.
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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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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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I would have rather been beat by a plumber than Kathy Griffin.
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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 believe that a bad Super Bowl halftime show is still better than a soccer game.
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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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My favorite bands are the Allman Brothers and Red Hot Chili Peppers.
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I believe everything creative is somewhat collaborative. If you’re a painter and someone stretches your canvas, it was collaborative on some level.
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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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