Television is 15 hour days. Movies are 18 hour days. And it’s 18 hours of doing not a thing.
RON WHITEI’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.
More Ron White Quotes
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I was always a funny guy. I don’t think anybody that makes it to this level of stand-up wasn’t a funny guy when they were young.
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The first thing I ever got my hands on was Andy Griffith’s ‘What It Was, Was Football.’ I was fascinated with the fact that every syllable made it funny, and I would laugh even though I didn’t know what any of it meant.
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Comedy is great because there’s no overhead.
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Anything I write that I consider stage-quality work, I won’t give my TV show. I put it in my live show.
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I was talking to a guy who was holding his 18-month-old daughter with the only limb he had left, and he had a smile on his face. I thought, ‘I’m not even a 10th of this man.’
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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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There’s not a pill you can take; there’s not a class you can go to. Stupid is forever.
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If I sit down to write a joke about, whatever, the polluted Gulf of Mexico, it comes out mundane to me.
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My show is more storytelling now than it’s ever been. It’s what I’m good at.
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I’ve been married a few times. I’m not good at it.
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I consider it an honor and a privilege to give back however I can for the many sacrifices of these incredibly brave men and women.
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I’d rather do a really good small part than a really bad big part.
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I had the right to remain silent… but I didn’t have the ability.
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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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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.
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