Any time someone achieves success before they’ve earned it, it always comes back to haunt them.
RON WHITEMy brain is like a cross between a colander and a Lazy Susan – thin, slow, and it leaks.
More Ron White Quotes
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Anything I write that I consider stage-quality work, I won’t give my TV show. I put it in my live show.
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There have been times in my life that I’ve had a ton of vices, and my demons have run amok for years and years and years.
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When I was 20, I used to go around telling stories, and I knew where I was comfortable – onstage, talking, making ’em laugh and listen to the weirdest things. I liked being the center of attention.
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There were years when I was a beer and tequila guy, then I got real fat. And then I found that you could actually go on a diet and drink scotch. Then I got hooked on scotch, and if you get hooked on scotch, then everything else just tastes wrong.
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You wanna get the truth out of me, get me hammered.
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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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All of my comedian friends are some of the best joke writers in the world.
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My uncle was a preacher, and I used to go watch him preach. He was also funny, so I’m very ‘preacher-ish’ on stage, not by intent but because that’s where I learned to talk in front of people.
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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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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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A killer Cuban restaurant with a giant cigar bar. Have me a Cuban sandwich. That’s just like heaven to me. I’m a simple man.
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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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There’s not a pill you can take; there’s not a class you can go to. Stupid is forever.
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Somebody the other day had a review, called me ‘America’s reprobate.’ And I don’t even know what that means, but I kinda like the way it sounds.
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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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