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.
RON WHITEYou 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.
More Ron White Quotes
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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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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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The bulk of my fans are my age, and I’m aging at the same rate they are. That makes me relevant. They like hearing what I have to say. I work hard at it, but it’s addicting, really.
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I think honest communication, no matter where it comes from, is positive for a relationship.
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I don’t like to do material people have heard. Now, they like to hear material that they know, because that’s the stuff that made me famous, and, unfortunately, I don’t do a ton of it.
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I love Cincinnati, but you can keep that spaghetti chili product!
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I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade… And try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka, and have a party.
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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 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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I’d rather do a really good small part than a really bad big part.
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I was considered by my peers to be a good comedian. So that’s all I ever strived to do was get some recognition from my peers.
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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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Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty… mine’s putting in an express lane.
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Any time someone achieves success before they’ve earned it, it always comes back to haunt them.
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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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