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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More Ron White Quotes
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I was a comedy fan when I was a little kid.
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Comedy is all about the pause.
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Comedy is great because there’s no overhead.
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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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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’ve gathered some of my close musical and comedian friends, and we’re going to see if we can’t bring a few laughs to these soldiers, raise some money, and hopefully lift their spirits.
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If I’m not in the theatre, I’m in an open mic night or doing a guest set at the Comedy Club, or whatever, just trying to develop stuff.
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A lot of people can find something to laugh at in my humor, I guess.
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I’d rather do a really good small part than a really bad big part.
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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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The bulk of my fans are my age, and I’m aging at the same rate they are. That makes me relevant. They like hearing what I have to say. I work hard at it, but it’s addicting, really.
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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 of my comedian friends are some of the best joke writers in the world.
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I think honest communication, no matter where it comes from, is positive for a relationship.
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The next time you have a thought… let it go.
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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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Anybody could say anything they want about me, and it literally never penetrates my skin.
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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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Everybody I know is a joke writer.
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I’ve been married a few times. I’m not good at it.
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Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty… mine’s putting in an express lane.
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My biggest pet peeve, I guess, is other comedians criticizing Larry the Cable Guy.
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There were years when I was a beer and tequila guy, then I got real fat. And then I found that you could actually go on a diet and drink scotch. Then I got hooked on scotch, and if you get hooked on scotch, then everything else just tastes wrong.
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Television is 15 hour days. Movies are 18 hour days. And it’s 18 hours of doing not a thing.
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I still love to walk on stage and make people laugh, and I work very, very hard at it, and I take it seriously.
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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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