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 WHITEMy uncle was a preacher, and I used to go watch him preach. He was also funny, so I’m very ‘preacher-ish’ on stage, not by intent but because that’s where I learned to talk in front of people.
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There 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.
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I go to more open mic nights than open mikers.
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I’m definitely guilty of thinking something is funny but thinking the audience won’t. Then three years later I will finally try it and it’ll kill them. I got to give them more credit.
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Anybody could say anything they want about me, and it literally never penetrates my skin.
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I go through about 140 cities a year.
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My biggest pet peeve, I guess, is other comedians criticizing Larry the Cable Guy.
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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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There are two kinds of comics; there are the ones who build bridges, and then there are the people who walk across the bridges as though they built them. The bridge builders are few and far between.
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Diamonds – that’ll shut her up… for a minute!
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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 love Cincinnati, but you can keep that spaghetti chili product!
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I want my fans to feel like we’re always in touch. Because without ’em, I wouldn’t be able to do any of this.
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My shows are not all-the-way filthy, but they can be.
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I was a comedy fan when I was a little kid.
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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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