Ron White Quotes

I think I have always tried to connect my comedy to my art.

I don't have any writers. I never get a laugh with somebody else's jokes. I can't do it justice.

For me, the way I stay consistent is through stand-up comedy.

I think comedy I've learned is really just about relaxing and trusting yourself and allowing yourself to fail.

I guess I still feel that I'm a comedian; if I had to pick one thing that I feel like I could do, it would be that. That doesn't mean that I like it, but I feel that's what I am.

Comedy was something I picked up trying to perfect my art through spoken word. I got on YouTube just to show off my poetry, and then people thought I was funny, so I ran with it.

I love stand up and it keeps me grounded, to say the stuff I have been thinking without anyone changing it.

I prefer being known for my stand-up because I write it. I love being an actor, and saying other people's words is great. But then, when I do stand-up, I love getting my own point of view out there.

That's what comedy is like: You have to force yourself out in the world because you're always one experience away from new material.

My first love is doing my own comedy stuff.

I like stand-up. I've done it since I was a teenager, so it's kind of my first job and first kind of creative way to express myself.

It's always been a dream of mine to write comedy and be creative.

George Carlin put it best. He said, "My old act was so easy to do because there was so little of me in it."

I really like to do comedy, and I did comedy the first 2 years after I graduated college, so I really love it and appreciate it.

I think my goal was just to do comedy, honestly. It still is. Whatever form that took or takes, it doesn't matter.

I just love entertaining. I will do anything - stand-up comedy, video games, fencing, internet shorts - I just want to keep being lucky enough to entertain people anyway I can. I try never to limit my art to a medium.

As a comedian, you're kind of like a blues musician; you have to live a little bit.

When I got on Stern I realized that this was the one job where you could be really honest and open, almost like Richard Pryor or something. You can be honest about your life and get laughs.

My improv definitely shows a different side of myself, which is more true to what my real humor is and what my real personality is, and I think - I guess 'wild' is a good word for it. I'm still sweet! But I won't let anyone walk all over me.

Being on 'Whitney' is a job, but stand-up is my life. I could never stop. There's an art to it. I love having strangers laugh with me, so as long as I can continue doing that, I'll be happy. Working on a show and collectively sharing ideas with a cast is great, but stand-up is my first love.

Stand-up will always be my first love, and it has been the primary way I've expressed myself since I was 17.

I'm a comedian first. I've learned how to act. I just draw on life experiences and that's how I've learned. I didn't take classes or anything. I don't need no classroom.

Theo does comedy now, and he's traveling around the country doing comedy, and I actually just saw him, he's from Louisiana, and I just saw him when I went home to visit my family in Louisiana. I saw his comedy show and he was brilliant.

Jon Stewart hires people that he thinks are funny. That's it. That's the only requirement.

If you think something's funny, go with that. Most comedians pull jokes from a place of honesty.