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 WHITEThere have been times when I played more than others, but I’ve been a road comic for a quarter of a century, so I’ve always played golf on the road because you have a lot of time to kill.
More Ron White Quotes
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The Majestic Theatre in San Antone is as good as it gets.
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I really understood a lot more about comedy after listening to Bill Hicks, who died at 32 years old. He’s probably the best comedian who ever lived. Although you can’t say that because of Carlin, Cosby and Pryor.
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I believe everything creative is somewhat collaborative.
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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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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.
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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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Think of The Rontourage as the Ron White Channel, where you can see us getting into trouble in all kinds of different places.
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All of my comedian friends are some of the best joke writers in the world.
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Pace, rhythm and timing. Pace, rhythm and timing is what it’s about. The content’s got to be great, but then it’s got to be delivered. It’s a tricky thing to do, and it takes a lot of work.
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Anybody could say anything they want about me, and it literally never penetrates my skin.
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I’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.
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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.
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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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I think the world has their own good, clean, Christian comedy. They don’t need my help.
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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.
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