If you become famous and don’t have a live show to back it up, they’re not going to pay you any money.
RON WHITETelevision is 15 hour days. Movies are 18 hour days. And it’s 18 hours of doing not a thing.
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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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There’s no backlog of people we can fire for no reason and act as if they don’t exist.
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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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I don’t watch Comedy Central. I don’t enjoy it.
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If you look at the common denominator of all the comics who have had big success, it’s being true to their nature… that’s what takes a long time to learn.
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I go to more open mic nights than open mikers.
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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 believe everything creative is somewhat collaborative.
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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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There’s not a pill you can take; there’s not a class you can go to. Stupid is forever.
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I don’t have a specific plan except for as long as people want to listen to me talk, I’m going to keep talking. I can’t imagine a life without doing standup.
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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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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 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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My shows are not all-the-way filthy, but they can be.
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