You can tell on-stage when a joke’s starting to lose its pop. It doesn’t mean people don’t want to hear it anymore; it means I don’t want to do it anymore. Because I want to move on to something that has a knee-jerk reaction just like you get when you tell somebody a joke that they’ve never heard.
RON WHITEI would have rather been beat by a plumber than Kathy Griffin.
More Ron White Quotes
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I’ve been married a few times. I’m not good at it.
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The Majestic Theatre in San Antone is as good as it gets.
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I would have rather been beat by a plumber than Kathy Griffin.
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Ultimately I’m the writer for me, but also, anytime one of my friends gets stuck with a bit, they can call me, and I’m pretty good at helping them get there.
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You know, my first album, some of those jokes I’d done for twelve years because I couldn’t throw ’em out.
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I don’t watch Comedy Central. I don’t enjoy it.
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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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My opening acts are always really strong because I need a guy who can take on a big, big crowd. Which is not that easy to do.
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My shows are not all-the-way filthy, but they can be.
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I had the right to remain silent… but I didn’t have the ability.
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I believe everything creative is somewhat collaborative. If you’re a painter and someone stretches your canvas, it was collaborative on some level.
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I love Cincinnati, but you can keep that spaghetti chili product!
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All of my comedian friends are some of the best joke writers in the world.
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I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade… And try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka, and have a party.
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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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You wanna get the truth out of me, get me hammered.
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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 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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Diamonds – that’ll shut her up… for a minute!
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I was considered by my peers to be a good comedian. So that’s all I ever strived to do was get some recognition from my peers.
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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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I’d rather do a really good small part than a really bad big part.
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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 loved listening to laughter even as a little kid.
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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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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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