I’m not the judge of who that is, but I am a believer that no debt in the universe goes unpaid. If you try to buy early, you’ll pay late.
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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I think the world has their own good, clean, Christian comedy. They don’t need my help.
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I believe that a bad Super Bowl halftime show is still better than a soccer game.
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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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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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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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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 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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Think of The Rontourage as the Ron White Channel, where you can see us getting into trouble in all kinds of different places.
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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’m not willing to drag my fans down a road I don’t believe in. That’s just my one little principle. I’ve only got one, and that’s it.
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My opening acts are always really strong because I need a guy who can take on a big, big crowd. Which is not that easy to do.
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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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Everybody I know is a joke writer.
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Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty… mine’s putting in an express lane.
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I loved listening to laughter even as a little kid.
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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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My show is more storytelling now than it’s ever been. It’s what I’m good at.
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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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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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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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When I was about 12 years old back in Houston, my Dad used to take us to the driving range.
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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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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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I go to more open mic nights than open mikers.
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Diamonds – that’ll shut her up… for a minute!
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I’d rather do a really good small part than a really bad big part.
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