I was so in love with the idea of making people laugh for a living that I didn’t care what I had to do to get there. Or how much money I was going to make when I did get there.
RON WHITEI’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.
More Ron White Quotes
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A killer Cuban restaurant with a giant cigar bar. Have me a Cuban sandwich. That’s just like heaven to me. I’m a simple man.
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My biggest pet peeve, I guess, is other comedians criticizing Larry the Cable Guy.
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My show is more storytelling now than it’s ever been. It’s what I’m good at.
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The first thing I ever got my hands on was Andy Griffith’s ‘What It Was, Was Football.’ I was fascinated with the fact that every syllable made it funny, and I would laugh even though I didn’t know what any of it meant.
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The next time you have a thought… let it go.
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My goal is just to become a better comedian.
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It went from Bob Newhart to Flip Wilson to Bill Cosby to Richard Pryor to George Carlin to Cheech and Chong. I had all these records.
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There have been times when I played more than others, but I’ve been a road comic for a quarter of a century, so I’ve always played golf on the road because you have a lot of time to kill.
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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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All of my comedian friends are some of the best joke writers in the world.
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Comedy is great because there’s no overhead.
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Mother, she likes the blue material just fine.
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My favorite bands are the Allman Brothers and Red Hot Chili Peppers.
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You wanna get the truth out of me, get me hammered.
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If you become famous and don’t have a live show to back it up, they’re not going to pay you any money.
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