I always found that the closer I got to who I really am, on stage, the more they responded to it.
RON WHITEI 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.
More Ron White Quotes
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I was a huge fan of comedy when I was a child.
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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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I was desperate for new material, so anything I can write a joke about that works is in the act. No matter who it offends, or who it bothers – doesn’t matter if its something my wife hates.
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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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Any time someone achieves success before they’ve earned it, it always comes back to haunt them.
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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.
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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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Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty… mine’s putting in an express lane.
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I do live like a rock star, but it’s not as great as it sounds. It’s a lot of traveling.
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Anybody could say anything they want about me, and it literally never penetrates my skin.
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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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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 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 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 had the right to remain silent… but I didn’t have the ability.
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