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.
RON WHITEMother, she likes the blue material just fine.
More Ron White Quotes
-
-
I do live like a rock star, but it’s not as great as it sounds. It’s a lot of traveling.
RON WHITE -
I’ve asked these guys in rock bands with all the 18-wheelers driving to the venue how they make money. I just don’t understand it. But I don’t understand a lot of things.
RON WHITE -
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.
RON WHITE -
You know, my first album, some of those jokes I’d done for twelve years because I couldn’t throw ’em out.
RON WHITE -
I was by far the least popular of the Blue Collar crew when we started. There was a definite pecking order, and everybody knew it.
RON WHITE -
I write these shows one joke at a time. There’s no continuity. I do try to figure an order to the stories, but there’s not continuity.
RON WHITE -
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.
RON WHITE -
I’m set up where I make a lot of money doing stand-up, and it’s easy.
RON WHITE -
If I sit down to write a joke about, whatever, the polluted Gulf of Mexico, it comes out mundane to me.
RON WHITE -
People, when they go on stage, tend to be animated and try to force things out instead of relaxing and bringing it in.
RON WHITE -
The only thing I really worry about is my live stand-up show because I have to answer to the fans.
RON WHITE -
I go through about 140 cities a year.
RON WHITE -
I believe everything creative is somewhat collaborative.
RON WHITE -
There’s no idea or concept in comedy you could do that hasn’t been attacked from some angle. But if you start leaving punchlines out so you’ll look cool, I don’t get that. But I don’t watch standup anyway, so I don’t know what they’re doing.
RON WHITE -
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.
RON WHITE