I still love to walk on stage and make people laugh, and I work very, very hard at it, and I take it seriously.
RON WHITEMy biggest pet peeve, I guess, is other comedians criticizing Larry the Cable Guy.
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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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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.
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I could do no wrong in my mother’s eyes from the day I was born. My fans bought her a very nice house in San Antonio, and she has a great life.
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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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It went from Bob Newhart to Flip Wilson to Bill Cosby to Richard Pryor to George Carlin to Cheech and Chong. I had all these records.
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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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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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You wanna get the truth out of me, get me hammered.
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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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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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Movies are boring. It’s like watching paint dry. I did a little role in a movie, and it was eight lines. I was there for three days. It’s just horrible.
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I would have rather been beat by a plumber than Kathy Griffin.
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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.
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I do a lot of gay-friendly stuff in my show, and men, women, they all love it. I practice non-judgment in my daily life and hope other people do the same thing.
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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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