If I see someone out there mouthing the words to a bit, I’m not having fun.
RON WHITEIt 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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TV is a hard job. You work 15 hours a day. People tell you what to do. I hate to do it.
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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’m not the judge of who that is, but I am a believer that no debt in the universe goes unpaid. If you try to buy early, you’ll pay late.
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I write these shows one joke at a time. There’s no continuity. I do try to figure an order to the stories, but there’s not continuity.
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Here’s how I operate. When I see something I like, 20 years later, I ask her brother for her phone number. She don’t even see me coming.
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Mother, she likes the blue material just fine.
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I always wanted to be a popular comedian.
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I don’t have a specific plan except for as long as people want to listen to me talk, I’m going to keep talking. I can’t imagine a life without doing standup.
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I don’t know who in my family thinks very fast at all, including me. The things that people see me do onstage are written, so it doesn’t have to be very quick if you have all day with a pen.
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Anybody could say anything they want about me, and it literally never penetrates my skin.
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Comedy is all about the pause.
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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’d rather do a really good small part than a really bad big part.
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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 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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