You can teach somebody how to be a brain surgeon, but you cannot teach them how to walk on a stage and make people laugh.
RON WHITEI would have rather been beat by a plumber than Kathy Griffin.
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I would have rather been beat by a plumber than Kathy Griffin.
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I always wanted to be a popular comedian.
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I get e-mail from all over the world, and from lawyers and doctors and whoever – plumbers and drywall hangers.
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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.
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The only way to stay sharp is to do live shows. There is no part-time comedy.
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My 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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I’d rather do a really good small part than a really bad big part.
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I’m set up where I make a lot of money doing stand-up, and it’s easy.
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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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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 could do no wrong in my mother’s eyes from the day I was born. My fans bought her a very nice house in San Antonio, and she has a great life.
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I don’t think we have a surplus of fine educators in this country that we can just start dropping them for no reason whatsoever.
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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 go through about 140 cities a year.
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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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