If you become famous and don’t have a live show to back it up, they’re not going to pay you any money.
RON WHITEI think honest communication, no matter where it comes from, is positive for a relationship.
More Ron White Quotes
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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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Ultimately I’m the writer for me, but also, anytime one of my friends gets stuck with a bit, they can call me, and I’m pretty good at helping them get there.
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There have been times in my life that I’ve had a ton of vices, and my demons have run amok for years and years and years.
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I want my fans to feel like we’re always in touch. Because without ’em, I wouldn’t be able to do any of this.
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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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I could do no wrong in my mother’s eyes from the day I was born. My fans bought her a very nice house in San Antonio, and she has a great life.
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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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I loved listening to laughter even as a little kid.
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I was by far the least popular of the Blue Collar crew when we started. There was a definite pecking order, and everybody knew it.
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When I was 20, I used to go around telling stories, and I knew where I was comfortable – onstage, talking, making ’em laugh and listen to the weirdest things. I liked being the center of attention.
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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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When I was about 12 years old back in Houston, my Dad used to take us to the driving range.
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Diamonds – that’ll shut her up… for a minute!
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There were years when I was a beer and tequila guy, then I got real fat. And then I found that you could actually go on a diet and drink scotch. Then I got hooked on scotch, and if you get hooked on scotch, then everything else just tastes wrong.
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TV is a hard job. You work 15 hours a day. People tell you what to do. I hate to do it.
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