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.’
RON WHITEI didn’t get where I am today by worryin’ about how I’d feel tomorrow.
More Ron White Quotes
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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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I love Cincinnati, but you can keep that spaghetti chili product!
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You can teach somebody how to be a brain surgeon, but you cannot teach them how to walk on a stage and make people laugh.
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Mother, she likes the blue material just fine.
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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.
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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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Comedy is all about the pause.
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A lot of people can find something to laugh at in my humor, I guess.
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I don’t watch Comedy Central. I don’t enjoy it.
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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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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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I write all of my material. It’s all me.
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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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I go to more open mic nights than open mikers.
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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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