The bulk of my fans are my age, and I’m aging at the same rate they are. That makes me relevant. They like hearing what I have to say. I work hard at it, but it’s addicting, really.
RON WHITEMovies are boring. It’s like watching paint dry. I did a little role in a movie, and it was eight lines. I was there for three days. It’s just horrible.
More Ron White Quotes
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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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I write these shows one joke at a time. There’s no continuity. I do try to figure an order to the stories, but there’s not continuity.
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The first thing I ever got my hands on was Andy Griffith’s ‘What It Was, Was Football.’ I was fascinated with the fact that every syllable made it funny, and I would laugh even though I didn’t know what any of it meant.
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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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There’s no backlog of people we can fire for no reason and act as if they don’t exist.
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My brain is like a cross between a colander and a Lazy Susan – thin, slow, and it leaks.
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I write all of my material. It’s all me.
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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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I would have rather been beat by a plumber than Kathy Griffin.
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Anybody could say anything they want about me, and it literally never penetrates my skin.
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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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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 really understood a lot more about comedy after listening to Bill Hicks, who died at 32 years old. He’s probably the best comedian who ever lived. Although you can’t say that because of Carlin, Cosby and Pryor.
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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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All I know how to do is take what’s on my mind and spit it out funny. I don’t know what else I could do besides comedy.
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