My opening acts are always really strong because I need a guy who can take on a big, big crowd. Which is not that easy to do.
RON WHITEI do live like a rock star, but it’s not as great as it sounds. It’s a lot of traveling.
More Ron White Quotes
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The Majestic Theatre in San Antone is as good as it gets.
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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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TV is a hard job. You work 15 hours a day. People tell you what to do. I hate to do it.
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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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I write all of my material. It’s all me.
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I had the right to remain silent… but I didn’t have the ability.
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If I sit down to write a joke about, whatever, the polluted Gulf of Mexico, it comes out mundane to me.
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My shows are not all-the-way filthy, but they can be.
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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 begged the universe to make me a famous comedian, and it did. So I tend not to ask for any more.
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I started selling out comedy clubs before I got to town with no advertising. I was selling out theaters just on the rumor that I was going to be there.
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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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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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I was always a funny guy. I don’t think anybody that makes it to this level of stand-up wasn’t a funny guy when they were young.
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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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