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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.

Ron White

I’ve got a role in the new Billy Bob Thornton movie that Billy Bob wrote and is going to direct called ‘Jayne Mansfield’s Car.’ I only have four scenes, but I have as much dialogue as anybody in the movie.
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Call Direct Go Movie New Only People Role Wrote
Television is 15 hour days. Movies are 18 hour days. And it’s 18 hours of doing not a thing.
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Day Doing Eighteen Fifteen Hour Movie Television Thing
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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Anymore Call Hear Joke Lose Mean People Pop Stage Start Tell Want
Comedy is all about the pause.
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Al Comedy Pause
I don’t have a specific plan except for as long as people want to listen to me talk, I’m going to keep talking. I can’t imagine a life without doing standup.
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Except Imagine Kep Life Listen Long People Plan Specific Talk
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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Famous Heard Made Material People Popular Stuff
I don’t watch Comedy Central. I don’t enjoy it.
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Central Comedy Enjoy Watch
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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Across Bridge Build Comic Kinda One People Through Two Walk
I go through about 140 cities a year.
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City Go Through Yera
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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Anybody could say anything they want about me, and it literally never penetrates my skin.
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Anybody Anything Could Literacy Penetrate Say Skin
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’ve been married a few times. I’m not good at it.
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Few Good Married Time
We always go out looking for live music after our shows.
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After Always Go Live Look Music Out Show
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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Care Good Idea Laugh Live Make Money Much People
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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