I’ve never been one to look up the ladder. I’ve always looked down the ladder. As long as there’s one guy down there, I’m fine.
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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I go through about 140 cities a year.
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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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My show is more storytelling now than it’s ever been. It’s what I’m good at.
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A lot of people can find something to laugh at in my humor, I guess.
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I go to more open mic nights than open mikers.
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We always go out looking for live music after our shows.
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Let’s face it: a lot of my material comes from the stuff that happens to me on the road.
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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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I could do no wrong in my mother’s eyes from the day I was born. My fans bought her a very nice house in San Antonio, and she has a great life.
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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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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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I’m not willing to drag my fans down a road I don’t believe in. That’s just my one little principle. I’ve only got one, and that’s it.
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I loved listening to laughter even as a little kid.
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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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I was considered by my peers to be a good comedian. So that’s all I ever strived to do was get some recognition from my peers.
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