You can teach somebody how to be a brain surgeon, but you cannot teach them how to walk on a stage and make people laugh.
RON WHITEYou can teach somebody how to be a brain surgeon, but you cannot teach them how to walk on a stage and make people laugh.
RON WHITEThere’s not a pill you can take; there’s not a class you can go to. Stupid is forever.
RON WHITEI was always a funny guy. I don’t think anybody that makes it to this level of stand-up wasn’t a funny guy when they were young.
RON WHITEWhen 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.
RON WHITEYou can’t fix stupid.
RON WHITEI 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.
RON WHITEThink of The Rontourage as the Ron White Channel, where you can see us getting into trouble in all kinds of different places.
RON WHITEThere’s no backlog of people we can fire for no reason and act as if they don’t exist.
RON WHITEYou wanna get the truth out of me, get me hammered.
RON WHITEAnybody could say anything they want about me, and it literally never penetrates my skin.
RON WHITEMy shows are not all-the-way filthy, but they can be.
RON WHITEI loved listening to laughter even as a little kid.
RON WHITEI’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.
RON WHITEThe first thing I ever got my hands on was Andy Griffith’s ‘What It Was, Was Football.’ I was fascinated with the fact that every syllable made it funny, and I would laugh even though I didn’t know what any of it meant.
RON WHITETelevision is 15 hour days. Movies are 18 hour days. And it’s 18 hours of doing not a thing.
RON WHITEYou know, my first album, some of those jokes I’d done for twelve years because I couldn’t throw ’em out.
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