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 WHITEIf I’m not in the theatre, I’m in an open mic night or doing a guest set at the Comedy Club, or whatever, just trying to develop stuff.
More Ron White Quotes
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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 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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If I’m not in the theatre, I’m in an open mic night or doing a guest set at the Comedy Club, or whatever, just trying to develop stuff.
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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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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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You wanna get the truth out of me, get me hammered.
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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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All of my comedian friends are some of the best joke writers in the world.
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I still love to walk on stage and make people laugh, and I work very, very hard at it, and I take it seriously.
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I could do no wrong in my mother’s eyes from the day I was born. My fans bought her a very nice house in San Antonio, and she has a great life.
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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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I go through about 140 cities a year.
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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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Any time someone achieves success before they’ve earned it, it always comes back to haunt them.
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I don’t watch Comedy Central. I don’t enjoy it.
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