You can teach somebody how to be a brain surgeon, but you cannot teach them how to walk on a stage and make people laugh.
RON WHITEI’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.
More Ron White Quotes
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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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When I was about 12 years old back in Houston, my Dad used to take us to the driving range.
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All of my comedian friends are some of the best joke writers in the world.
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My brain is like a cross between a colander and a Lazy Susan – thin, slow, and it leaks.
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I’m not willing to drag my fans down a road I don’t believe in. That’s just my one little principle. I’ve only got one, and that’s it.
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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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I have a very fun life. I don’t recommend it for anybody else, but it sure has been fun for me.
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If you watch the ‘Blue Collar Comedy Tour,’ don’t expect that when you come see me by myself, ’cause it’s a little rougher.
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My life has been wild enough to derive all of the stories you need out of it. I’ve been through many, many years of behavioral problems, so I don’t really look outside for stories.
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I was so in love with the idea of making people laugh for a living that I didn’t care what I had to do to get there. Or how much money I was going to make when I did get there.
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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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But I work harder now because I have so much more exposure. And actually the harder you work as a writer, the better you get at it. It’s like anything else. It’s a muscle you have to exercise. I write more now than ever.
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I always found that the closer I got to who I really am, on stage, the more they responded to it.
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Somebody the other day had a review, called me ‘America’s reprobate.’ And I don’t even know what that means, but I kinda like the way it sounds.
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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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