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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More Ron White Quotes
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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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I was a huge fan of comedy when I was a child.
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I go to more open mic nights than open mikers.
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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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My show is more storytelling now than it’s ever been. It’s what I’m good at.
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My favorite bands are the Allman Brothers and Red Hot Chili Peppers.
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My shows are not all-the-way filthy, but they can be.
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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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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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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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If I see someone out there mouthing the words to a bit, I’m not having fun.
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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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But I work harder now because I have so much more exposure. And actually the harder you work as a writer, the better you get at it. It’s like anything else. It’s a muscle you have to exercise. I write more now than ever.
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There were years when I was a beer and tequila guy, then I got real fat. And then I found that you could actually go on a diet and drink scotch. Then I got hooked on scotch, and if you get hooked on scotch, then everything else just tastes wrong.
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Think of The Rontourage as the Ron White Channel, where you can see us getting into trouble in all kinds of different places.
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