TV is a hard job. You work 15 hours a day. People tell you what to do. I hate to do it.
RON WHITEThe Majestic Theatre in San Antone is as good as it gets.
More Ron White Quotes
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I don’t think we have a surplus of fine educators in this country that we can just start dropping them for no reason whatsoever.
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I don’t know who in my family thinks very fast at all, including me. The things that people see me do onstage are written, so it doesn’t have to be very quick if you have all day with a pen.
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I always wanted to be a popular comedian.
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Anything I write that I consider stage-quality work, I won’t give my TV show. I put it in my live show.
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If you become famous and don’t have a live show to back it up, they’re not going to pay you any money.
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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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I believe everything creative is somewhat collaborative.
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I think honest communication, no matter where it comes from, is positive for a relationship.
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As long as I stay engaged with everybody else, then I’ll create more comedy. It’s just when I shut off and stay at home… What helps me is just to keep moving.
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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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If you look at the common denominator of all the comics who have had big success, it’s being true to their nature… that’s what takes a long time to learn.
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Anybody could say anything they want about me, and it literally never penetrates my skin.
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I’ve gathered some of my close musical and comedian friends, and we’re going to see if we can’t bring a few laughs to these soldiers, raise some money, and hopefully lift their spirits.
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Comedy is all about the pause.
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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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