I always found that the closer I got to who I really am, on stage, the more they responded to it.
RON WHITEI have a very fun life. I don’t recommend it for anybody else, but it sure has been fun for me.
More Ron White Quotes
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A lot of people can find something to laugh at in my humor, I guess.
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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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But I work harder now because I have so much more exposure. And actually the harder you work as a writer, the better you get at it. It’s like anything else. It’s a muscle you have to exercise. I write more now than ever.
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There have been times in my life that I’ve had a ton of vices, and my demons have run amok for years and years and years.
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I was a comedy fan when I was a little kid.
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I believe everything creative is somewhat collaborative. If you’re a painter and someone stretches your canvas, it was collaborative on some level.
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I don’t like to do material people have heard. Now, they like to hear material that they know, because that’s the stuff that made me famous, and, unfortunately, I don’t do a ton of it.
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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 shows are not all-the-way filthy, but they can be.
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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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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’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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Comedy is great because there’s no overhead.
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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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As long as I stay engaged with everybody else, then I’ll create more comedy. It’s just when I shut off and stay at home… What helps me is just to keep moving.
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