Ron White Quotes

Even though my father was a radio comedian, it wasn't cool to say, at a young age, 'I want to be a comedian.'

Basically, I was always very interested in comedy, but I was much more sort of academic. And then, after college, loaded with my art history degree, I decided to go work at Comedy Central as a temp.

I did years of summer stock. I sort of only wanted to be an actor. And then at 19, I was funny, and I had some of these bits that I did for friends, and I immediately could get on television.

I think I probably would have gone into stand-up.

No, I never really set out to be a stand up. I wanted to be a writer of some sort. I thought I'd do a bit of stand up and hopefully that will lead to stuff and little did I know it kind of snowballed. Before I knew it I was doing stand up 300 nights a year.

If I had to design a career for myself, I would have done comedy.

I've been a comedian since I was fourteen. But I've never really been a CEO.

I spent 25 years as a stand-up comedian.

I will always do stand-up, even if my acting career takes off. Stand-up is my life.

I adore doing comedy, I think it's fantastic. I never saw myself doing exclusively comedy.

At one point when I was very young, when I was first starting out, I thought, 'Well, one day I'll be able to put all the music away and become a real comedian.' But then I realized there are amazing musical comedians out there, that musical comedy is probably something I'll always want to pursue.

I always wanted to be a comedian, but I wasn't sure how you do that.

Stand-up can take you in so many different places, man. So many doors can be opened up from stand-up comedy, and the first one that was opened up for me was acting. But you can go from acting to being a TV personality to being a radio personality to being a writer to being a producer, to just being a visionary, to voiceover work.

I never really set out to be a comedian, but as a kid, I loved doing sketches and playing characters. And then a great friend kept telling me I should be a comedian, so I followed her advice and gave it a shot.

In college, I didn't perform so much, but when I graduated is when I discovered Second City. Then I realized, 'Oh, there are people who can focus on comedy and especially improvisational comedy and make a career out of it.'

I always wanted to be a comedian and actor.

If my career path takes me elsewhere, that's great. But comedy is my forte.

I went to theater school, and then comedy... just happened.

I started in action, and then I went to comedy school.

I worked as a comedian for 23 years, 51 weeks a year.

My whole life, I knew that I was going to be funny for a living.

I don't know that I'd be a comedian if I stayed in Canada.

I started comedy in 2006. I didn't even think it was a thing I could do.

From the age of 14, I remember thinking I wanted to be a comedian. But that was like saying I wanted to be an astronaut. It felt like a million miles away, something I could never do, but would be great to.

I have always been a comedian - that has always been my job and it is what I want to do for a long time to come.