The next time you have a thought… let it go.
RON WHITEMy opening acts are always really strong because I need a guy who can take on a big, big crowd. Which is not that easy to do.
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Mother, she likes the blue material just fine.
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I get e-mail from all over the world, and from lawyers and doctors and whoever – plumbers and drywall hangers.
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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.
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It went from Bob Newhart to Flip Wilson to Bill Cosby to Richard Pryor to George Carlin to Cheech and Chong. I had all these records.
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My show is more storytelling now than it’s ever been. It’s what I’m good at.
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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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All of my comedian friends are some of the best joke writers in the world.
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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 was considered by my peers to be a good comedian. So that’s all I ever strived to do was get some recognition from my peers.
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I think honest communication, no matter where it comes from, is positive for a relationship.
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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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I have a very fun life. I don’t recommend it for anybody else, but it sure has been fun for me.
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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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Everybody I know is a joke writer.
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I’ve got a role in the new Billy Bob Thornton movie that Billy Bob wrote and is going to direct called ‘Jayne Mansfield’s Car.’ I only have four scenes, but I have as much dialogue as anybody in the movie.
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Comedy is great because there’s no overhead.
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I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade… And try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka, and have a party.
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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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My opening acts are always really strong because I need a guy who can take on a big, big crowd. Which is not that easy to do.
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I 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.
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My shows are not all-the-way filthy, but they can be.
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The way my brain processes information is quite odd. I mean, I have Attention Deficit Disorder and another learning disability I can’t even spell. I don’t even have a high school diploma. I’m smart, but you can’t prove it on paper.
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That’s the beauty of being a straight-to-DVD star. It really helps you stay under the media’s radar.
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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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I still love to walk on stage and make people laugh, and I work very, very hard at it, and I take it seriously.
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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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