Anything I write that I consider stage-quality work, I won’t give my TV show. I put it in my live show.
RON WHITEIf I see someone out there mouthing the words to a bit, I’m not having fun.
More Ron White Quotes
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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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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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Donald Trump – and I don’t dislike Donald one single bit – has no idea how good the Mexican people are at building tunnels.
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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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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’d rather do a really good small part than a really bad big part.
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I always found that the closer I got to who I really am, on stage, the more they responded to it.
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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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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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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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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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Television is 15 hour days. Movies are 18 hour days. And it’s 18 hours of doing not a thing.
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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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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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