Ron White Quotes

I still do standup.

Trying my hand at standup was exciting to me.

I got into standup because I wanted to be an actor, and then I ended up loving standup for the next eleven years.

I started doing standup when I was in college, and I would incorporate a lot of characters into my act.

I wouldn't call myself a standup in the presence of Jerry Seinfeld or Chris Rock, but I do my share of it and it has been and remains part of my activity and I like it.

You know, stand-up comedy is where I pretty much started out.

I love standing at a microphone and making a room of people laugh. That's the part of the work I love; everything else is extraneous.

I'm not a natural comic, I don't think. That's why I gave up stand-up. It was hard. It involved a lot of death. Dying. Dying on stage. But it's one of those jobs you can only learn by doing it.

Sometimes I start off shows by explaining to people that it's just a bunch of stories - I always say 'It's like standup, just less funny.'

I'd been doing standup since college.

I know I'm going to be doing standup for the rest of my life.

When I was in third grade I taught myself ventriloquism... What's hard is to learn to be an entertainer and make people laugh. I was a few years out of college before I felt I had enough material. Then in 1988 I moved to L.A. and started to do some shows at comedy clubs.

I'm really good at standup. I always win at standup.

I've been doing stand-up since '89.

I will always love to perform standup comedy.

Until I started doing standup, there were some very bleak days.

You know, I never knew if I had any talent when I started in this business. My first job was being a page at The Tonight Show. I saw Jack Paar come out one night and sit on the edge of his desk and talk about what he'd done the night before. I thought, 'I can do that!' I used to do that on a street corner in the Bronx with all my buddies.

I started doing stand-up in college.

I tend to a lot of improvisational ranting, and that's fun. For me, stand-up has been, performance-wise, a really good outlet.

Stand-up is what I am; stand-up is what made me.

It takes both courage and talent to stand up in front of fellow human beings and make them crack a smile, and at the same time keep it clean.

I always want to go back and do stand-up; I like the freedom.

I always was a writer, but then I wanted to do stand-up because I thought that was a way that I could perform what I wrote.

I started doing standup because of Hugh Grant's best-man speech in 'Four Weddings,' which is basically a standup routine.

All I ever wanted to do was stand-up. It kind of charges me and gives me a rush.