I was so in love with the idea of making people laugh for a living that I didn’t care what I had to do to get there. Or how much money I was going to make when I did get there.
RON WHITEComedy is great because there’s no overhead.
More Ron White Quotes
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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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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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I believe everything creative is somewhat collaborative. If you’re a painter and someone stretches your canvas, it was collaborative on some level.
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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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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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Everybody I know is a joke writer.
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I still love to walk on stage and make people laugh, and I work very, very hard at it, and I take it seriously.
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I write all of my material. It’s all me.
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I really understood a lot more about comedy after listening to Bill Hicks, who died at 32 years old. He’s probably the best comedian who ever lived. Although you can’t say that because of Carlin, Cosby and Pryor.
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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 always found that the closer I got to who I really am, on stage, the more they responded to it.
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I’m set up where I make a lot of money doing stand-up, and it’s easy.
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I love Cincinnati, but you can keep that spaghetti chili product!
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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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Television is 15 hour days. Movies are 18 hour days. And it’s 18 hours of doing not a thing.
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