I’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.
RON WHITEI’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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Somebody the other day had a review, called me ‘America’s reprobate.’ And I don’t even know what that means, but I kinda like the way it sounds.
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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 believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade… And try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka, and have a party.
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Ultimately I’m the writer for me, but also, anytime one of my friends gets stuck with a bit, they can call me, and I’m pretty good at helping them get there.
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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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The next time you have a thought… let it go.
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I didn’t get where I am today by worryin’ about how I’d feel tomorrow.
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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 want my fans to feel like we’re always in touch. Because without ’em, I wouldn’t be able to do any of this.
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People, when they go on stage, tend to be animated and try to force things out instead of relaxing and bringing it in.
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We always go out looking for live music after our shows.
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I think honest communication, no matter where it comes from, is positive for a relationship.
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I don’t know who in my family thinks very fast at all, including me. The things that people see me do onstage are written, so it doesn’t have to be very quick if you have all day with a pen.
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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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Television is 15 hour days. Movies are 18 hour days. And it’s 18 hours of doing not a thing.
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There have been times when I played more than others, but I’ve been a road comic for a quarter of a century, so I’ve always played golf on the road because you have a lot of time to kill.
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I’ve been married a few times. I’m not good at it.
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I don’t think we have a surplus of fine educators in this country that we can just start dropping them for no reason whatsoever.
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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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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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When I was about 12 years old back in Houston, my Dad used to take us to the driving range.
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I was by far the least popular of the Blue Collar crew when we started. There was a definite pecking order, and everybody knew it.
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People are saying that I’m an alcoholic, and that’s not true, because I only drink when I work, and I’m a workaholic.
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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 become famous and don’t have a live show to back it up, they’re not going to pay you any money.
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You can’t fix stupid.
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