I’ve got a great cigar collection – it’s actually not a collection, because that would imply I wasn’t going to smoke every last one of ’em.
RON WHITEThe only thing I really worry about is my live stand-up show because I have to answer to the fans.
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I could do no wrong in my mother’s eyes from the day I was born. My fans bought her a very nice house in San Antonio, and she has a great life.
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I go to more open mic nights than open mikers.
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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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I’m set up where I make a lot of money doing stand-up, and it’s easy.
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I was desperate for new material, so anything I can write a joke about that works is in the act. No matter who it offends, or who it bothers – doesn’t matter if its something my wife hates.
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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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All I know how to do is take what’s on my mind and spit it out funny. I don’t know what else I could do besides comedy.
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I do live like a rock star, but it’s not as great as it sounds. It’s a lot of traveling.
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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 was always a funny guy. I don’t think anybody that makes it to this level of stand-up wasn’t a funny guy when they were young.
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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 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 didn’t get where I am today by worryin’ about how I’d feel tomorrow.
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TV is a hard job. You work 15 hours a day. People tell you what to do. I hate to do it.
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I started selling out comedy clubs before I got to town with no advertising. I was selling out theaters just on the rumor that I was going to be there.
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