I’m definitely guilty of thinking something is funny but thinking the audience won’t. Then three years later I will finally try it and it’ll kill them. I got to give them more credit.
RON WHITEI’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.
More Ron White Quotes
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I’ve been married a few times. I’m not good at it.
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A lot of people can find something to laugh at in my humor, I guess.
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The Majestic Theatre in San Antone is as good as it gets.
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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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We always go out looking for live music after our shows.
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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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It went from Bob Newhart to Flip Wilson to Bill Cosby to Richard Pryor to George Carlin to Cheech and Chong. I had all these records.
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If I’m not in the theatre, I’m in an open mic night or doing a guest set at the Comedy Club, or whatever, just trying to develop stuff.
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I was a little one-trick pony. I do what I’ve always done. That’s really where my best stuff comes from. I don’t know how it happens. It just happens.
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I was a huge fan of comedy when I was a child.
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I was talking to a guy who was holding his 18-month-old daughter with the only limb he had left, and he had a smile on his face. I thought, ‘I’m not even a 10th of this man.’
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I always found that the closer I got to who I really am, on stage, the more they responded to it.
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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 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 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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