I’m definitely guilty of thinking something is funny but thinking the audience won’t. Then three years later I will finally try it and it’ll kill them. I got to give them more credit.
RON WHITEI don’t think we have a surplus of fine educators in this country that we can just start dropping them for no reason whatsoever.
More Ron White Quotes
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I’ve been married a few times. I’m not good at it.
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I do live like a rock star, but it’s not as great as it sounds. It’s a lot of traveling.
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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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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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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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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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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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I don’t have a specific plan except for as long as people want to listen to me talk, I’m going to keep talking. I can’t imagine a life without doing standup.
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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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It went from Bob Newhart to Flip Wilson to Bill Cosby to Richard Pryor to George Carlin to Cheech and Chong. I had all these records.
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I’m set up where I make a lot of money doing stand-up, and it’s easy.
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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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I was so in love with the idea of making people laugh for a living that I didn’t care what I had to do to get there. Or how much money I was going to make when I did get there.
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Comedy is great because there’s no overhead.
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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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