I go to more open mic nights than open mikers.
RON WHITEI begged the universe to make me a famous comedian, and it did. So I tend not to ask for any more.
More Ron White Quotes
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When I was 20, I used to go around telling stories, and I knew where I was comfortable – onstage, talking, making ’em laugh and listen to the weirdest things. I liked being the center of attention.
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I started selling out comedy clubs before I got to town with no advertising. I was selling out theaters just on the rumor that I was going to be there.
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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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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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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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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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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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Comedy is all about the pause.
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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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The Majestic Theatre in San Antone is as good as it gets.
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I do a lot of gay-friendly stuff in my show, and men, women, they all love it. I practice non-judgment in my daily life and hope other people do the same thing.
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I was a huge fan of comedy when I was a child.
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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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I always found that the closer I got to who I really am, on stage, the more they responded to it.
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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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