John Goodman Quotes

20 quotations by John Goodman

When I was a kid, I loved Popeye, but the old ones, the real old ones.

TV is the best babysitter.

This happens to be that the power of laughter and love would beat out the power of fear every time. You know, I hate to sound corny about it but it's true, and I think that's what this movie is about.

Social Security's future has gotten worse, and each year we delay reform adds to the cost we are pushing off onto our children.

Pardon me for loitering in front of an orchestra.

Like, every couple of months you read, they rewrite, you come back in, they've animated more stuff - they usually videotape you while you're reading it - so they'll incorporate some gestures and some facial expressions into it.

Kids are at my level. I like goofing around with them.

It was cool for a couple of weeks, but how much bad golf can you play?

It was a fight for a very long time. After the end of the first season, all that was done.

If you want to direct, you've got to work.

I'm really getting to appreciate traditional jazz now - the New Orleans stuff - a lot more than I did before.

I'd like to come back because I really miss doing situation comedy.

I'd bowled a lot, but I never really had proper lessons.

I hated Woody Woodpecker and Scooby-Doo, but I was a cartoon freak.

I flew into New York for the Raising Arizona audition, and we just started joking around.

I don't need the bread, but it's nice to do something creative.

But I'm not as bad as Al Pacino - he doesn't even know what month it is half the time when he's working.

Believe me, nobody likes to loaf more than me.

Basically, though, I'm just lucky to love what I do for a living.

As far as I know, the guys at Pixar are opposed to a Monsters, Inc. sequel.