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.
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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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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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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The only way to stay sharp is to do live shows. There is no part-time comedy.
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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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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 love Cincinnati, but you can keep that spaghetti chili product!
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My favorite bands are the Allman Brothers and Red Hot Chili Peppers.
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Here’s how I operate. When I see something I like, 20 years later, I ask her brother for her phone number. She don’t even see me coming.
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I write these shows one joke at a time. There’s no continuity. I do try to figure an order to the stories, but there’s not continuity.
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That’s the beauty of being a straight-to-DVD star. It really helps you stay under the media’s radar.
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Everybody I know is a joke writer.
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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.
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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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Television is 15 hour days. Movies are 18 hour days. And it’s 18 hours of doing not a thing.
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Diamonds – that’ll shut her up… for a minute!
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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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The Majestic Theatre in San Antone is as good as it gets.
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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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But I work harder now because I have so much more exposure. And actually the harder you work as a writer, the better you get at it. It’s like anything else. It’s a muscle you have to exercise. I write more now than ever.
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The next time you have a thought… let it go.
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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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I think the world has their own good, clean, Christian comedy. They don’t need my help.
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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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You know, my first album, some of those jokes I’d done for twelve years because I couldn’t throw ’em out.
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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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When I was about 12 years old back in Houston, my Dad used to take us to the driving range.
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