Movies are boring. It’s like watching paint dry. I did a little role in a movie, and it was eight lines. I was there for three days. It’s just horrible.
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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Everybody I know is a joke writer.
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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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I didn’t get where I am today by worryin’ about how I’d feel tomorrow.
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The way my brain processes information is quite odd. I mean, I have Attention Deficit Disorder and another learning disability I can’t even spell. I don’t even have a high school diploma. I’m smart, but you can’t prove it on paper.
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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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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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You wanna get the truth out of me, get me hammered.
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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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There have been times in my life that I’ve had a ton of vices, and my demons have run amok for years and years and years.
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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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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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I want my fans to feel like we’re always in touch. Because without ’em, I wouldn’t be able to do any of this.
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I think the world has their own good, clean, Christian comedy. They don’t need my help.
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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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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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