Comedy is great because there’s no overhead.
RON WHITEI’m not the judge of who that is, but I am a believer that no debt in the universe goes unpaid. If you try to buy early, you’ll pay late.
More Ron White Quotes
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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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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 love Cincinnati, but you can keep that spaghetti chili product!
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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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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 consider it an honor and a privilege to give back however I can for the many sacrifices of these incredibly brave men and women.
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There’s not a pill you can take; there’s not a class you can go to. Stupid is forever.
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I’ve got a great cigar collection – it’s actually not a collection, because that would imply I wasn’t going to smoke every last one of ’em.
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The only way to stay sharp is to do live shows. There is no part-time comedy.
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I’ve asked these guys in rock bands with all the 18-wheelers driving to the venue how they make money. I just don’t understand it. But I don’t understand a lot of things.
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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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Everybody I know is a joke writer.
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Movies 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.
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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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The Majestic Theatre in San Antone is as good as it gets.
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