You know, my first album, some of those jokes I’d done for twelve years because I couldn’t throw ’em out.
RON WHITEThe Majestic Theatre in San Antone is as good as it gets.
More Ron White Quotes
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My life has been wild enough to derive all of the stories you need out of it. I’ve been through many, many years of behavioral problems, so I don’t really look outside for stories.
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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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Let’s face it: a lot of my material comes from the stuff that happens to me on the road.
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People are saying that I’m an alcoholic, and that’s not true, because I only drink when I work, and I’m a workaholic.
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Somebody the other day had a review, called me ‘America’s reprobate.’ And I don’t even know what that means, but I kinda like the way it sounds.
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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 all of my material. It’s all me.
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Diamonds – that’ll shut her up… for a minute!
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My uncle was a preacher, and I used to go watch him preach. He was also funny, so I’m very ‘preacher-ish’ on stage, not by intent but because that’s where I learned to talk in front of people.
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There are two kinds of comics; there are the ones who build bridges, and then there are the people who walk across the bridges as though they built them. The bridge builders are few and far between.
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People, when they go on stage, tend to be animated and try to force things out instead of relaxing and bringing it in.
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Anybody could say anything they want about me, and it literally never penetrates my skin.
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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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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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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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