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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.

Ron White

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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Club Comedy Devote Doing Guest Mic Open Stuff Theatre Try
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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Alcoholic Drink People Say Work Workaholic
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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Fascinate First Football Game Hand Imagine Life Listen Made Syllable Talk Thing
I consider it an honor and a privilege to give back however I can for the many sacrifices of these incredibly brave men and women.
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Back Brave Consider Honor However Inctredinly Many Men Privilege Sacrifice Women
I guarantee there’s people who watch television who have no idea how complicated it is to make a television show.
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Complicate Guarantee Ideas People Show Television Watch
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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Brother Come Later Number Operate Phone See Something
Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty… mine’s putting in an express lane.
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Abolish Death Express Lane Mine Other Penalty Put State
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.
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Believe Debt Judge Late Universe Unpaidm Buy
I begged the universe to make me a famous comedian, and it did. So I tend not to ask for any more.
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Beg Comedian Famous More Tend Universe
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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Cigar Cuban Giant Heaven Killer Restaurant Sanwick Simple
I was a little one-trick pony. I do what I’ve always done. That’s really where my best stuff comes from. I don’t know how it happens. It just happens.
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Always Best Done Happen Little One Pony Stuff Trick
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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Believe Lemon Life Party Somebody Try
When I was about 12 years old back in Houston, my Dad used to take us to the driving range.
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Back Country Dad Drive Old Range Take Twelve Year
The way my brain processes information is quite odd. I mean, I have Attention Deficit Disorder and another learning disability I can’t even spell. I don’t even have a high school diploma. I’m smart, but you can’t prove it on paper.
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Another Attention Brain Deficit Disability Disorder Information Learn Mean Odd Proces Quite Way
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.
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Call Direct Go Movie New Only People Role Wrote
I’d rather do a really good small part than a really bad big part.
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