I believe everything creative is somewhat collaborative.
RON WHITEIf you become famous and don’t have a live show to back it up, they’re not going to pay you any money.
More Ron White Quotes
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You wanna get the truth out of me, get me hammered.
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It never dawned on me that I had the option of becoming a comedian. I come from a little dirt street town in northwest Texas, and they really don’t talk about the arts there much on career day.
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I don’t watch Comedy Central. I don’t enjoy it.
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Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty… mine’s putting in an express lane.
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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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My show is more storytelling now than it’s ever been. It’s what I’m good at.
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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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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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There’s no backlog of people we can fire for no reason and act as if they don’t exist.
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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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The Majestic Theatre in San Antone is as good as it gets.
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I always wanted to be a popular comedian.
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My uncle was a preacher, and I used to go watch him preach. He was also funny, so I’m very ‘preacher-ish’ on stage, not by intent but because that’s where I learned to talk in front of people.
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If I see someone out there mouthing the words to a bit, I’m not having fun.
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Pace, rhythm and timing. Pace, rhythm and timing is what it’s about. The content’s got to be great, but then it’s got to be delivered. It’s a tricky thing to do, and it takes a lot of work.
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