Any time someone achieves success before they’ve earned it, it always comes back to haunt them.
RON WHITEI was a huge fan of comedy when I was a child.
More Ron White Quotes
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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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You can teach somebody how to be a brain surgeon, but you cannot teach them how to walk on a stage and make people laugh.
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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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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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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.
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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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Anybody could say anything they want about me, and it literally never penetrates my skin.
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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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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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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 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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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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There’s no backlog of people we can fire for no reason and act as if they don’t exist.
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I would have rather been beat by a plumber than Kathy Griffin.
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I write all of my material. It’s all me.
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