Quotes by John Goodman - Page 1

TV is the best babysitter.
John Goodman / Actor
Babysitter
Tvs
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You’re entering a world of pain.
John Goodman / Actor
Entering
Pain
World
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If you want to direct, you've got to work.
John Goodman / Actor
Direct
Ifs
Want
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If I don't trust [in] it, then it's worthless.
John Goodman / Actor
Don't Trust
Ifs
Worthless
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Believe me, nobody likes to loaf more than me.
John Goodman / Actor
Believe
Believe In Me
Likes
Loaf
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Pardon me for loitering in front of an orchestra.
John Goodman / Actor
Orchestra
Pardon
Pardon Me
Front
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Kids are at my level. I like goofing around with them.
John Goodman / Actor
Kids
Goofing Around
Levels
Goofing
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I'd bowled a lot, but I never really had proper lessons.
John Goodman / Actor
Lessons
Proper
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Smokey, this is not 'Nam. This is bowling. There are rules.
John Goodman / Actor
Bowling
Nomenclature
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I'm just a lazy boy. I'd rather sit in my recliner and act.
John Goodman / Actor
Boys
Lazy
Recliners
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I don't need the bread, but it's nice to do something creative.
John Goodman / Actor
Bread
Creative
Needs
Nice
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Basically, though, I'm just lucky to love what I do for a living.
John Goodman / Actor
To Love
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I'd like to come back because I really miss doing situation comedy.
John Goodman / Actor
Comedy
Missing
Situation
Miss
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I hated Woody Woodpecker and Scooby-Doo, but I was a cartoon freak.
John Goodman / Actor
Cartoon
Freak
Hated
Woodpeckers
Woody
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It was cool for a couple of weeks, but how much bad golf can you play?
John Goodman / Actor
Couple
Golf
Weeks
How Much
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When I was a kid, I loved Popeye, but the old ones, the real old ones.
John Goodman / Actor
Kids
Popeye
Real
Old Ones
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The power of laughter & love would beat out the power of fear every time.
John Goodman / Actor
Beats
Laughter
Love Laughter
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As far as I know, the guys at Pixar are opposed to a Monsters, Inc. sequel.
John Goodman / Actor
Guy
Monsters
Pixar
Opposed
Sequel
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That was all Rose, and Rose knew what she was doing. Her main thing was story.
John Goodman / Actor
Main
Main Thing
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When I was young, we couldn't afford much. But, my library card was my key to the world.
John Goodman / Actor
Kids
Cards
Keys
Library
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I flew into New York for the Raising Arizona audition, and we just started joking around.
John Goodman / Actor
Arizona
Flew
Audition
Joking
Raising
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It was a fight for a very long time. After the end of the first season, all that was done.
John Goodman / Actor
Time Fight Long
Season
Very Long Time
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Then I started checking out blues albums from the library and playing the harp along with them.
John Goodman / Actor
Blues
Checking
Harp
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Yeah, the material's been good so far, although I'm sure there's got to be a drought coming someday.
John Goodman / Actor
Drought
Someday
Yeah
Sure
Although
Coming
Far
Got
Material
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Giving up a lot of yourself isn't really that hard when you realize that you get more than you give up.
John Goodman / Actor
Giving
Giving Up
Realizing
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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.
John Goodman / Actor
Als
Half
Months
Al
Al Pacino
Month
Bad
Working
Half The Time
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Lady, I got buddies who died face down in the muck so that you and I could enjoy this family restaurant!
John Goodman / Actor
Enjoy
Faces
Restaurants
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I'm really getting to appreciate traditional jazz now - the New Orleans stuff - a lot more than I did before.
John Goodman / Actor
Appreciate
Jazz
New Orleans
Stuff
Traditional
Orleans
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George Washington Bridge? You throw yourself off the Brooklyn Bridge, traditionally. George Washington Bridge, who does that?
John Goodman / Actor
Bridges
Brooklyn Bridge
Doe
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Social Security's future has gotten worse, and each year we delay reform adds to the cost we are pushing off onto our children.
John Goodman / Actor
Children
Cost
Delay
Pushing
Reform
Years
Adds
Each Year
Gotten
Onto
Worse
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People just do the strangest things when they believe they're entitled. But they do even stranger things when they just plain believe.
John Goodman / Actor
Believe
People
Stranger
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Relax. Just relax and have fun doing what you're doing. Don't worry so much about being results oriented. Just commit yourself to the moment.
John Goodman / Actor
Fun
Relax
Worry
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People in Medicaid ought to have access to the same insurance as the rest of the population. If they are segregated, it will be a poor plan for poor people.
John Goodman / Actor
Access
Medicaid
Ought
People
Poor
Poor People
Population
Insurance
Segregated
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Sometimes I overtinker, which is something wrong with my brain chemistry. But in figuring out why I do that, maybe I'll make myself a better person. I doubt it.
John Goodman / Actor
Brain
Chemistry
Doubt
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Read, read, read, read, read. Read everything. You can’t work unless you know the world, and outside of living in the world the best way to learn about the world is to read about it.
John Goodman / Actor
Best Way
Way
World
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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.
John Goodman / Actor
Corny
Hate
Laughter
Thinking
Love Time Power
Beat
Every Time
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I don't trust myself enough. When I write, I overwrite. Gingerbread. Too much gingerbread. Writing is probably the only hobby I have. But I wish I had another one. If I was just a little better at golf.
John Goodman / Actor
Golf
Wish
Writing
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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.
John Goodman / Actor
Animated
Facial
Gestures
Months
Expressions
Incorporate
Rewrite
Videotape
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[In my pre-success years] there was a constant hunger, measuring myself against other actors, and there was sometimes fear. But, there was always a need for self-improvement, to help with the struggle to make myself a better actor.
John Goodman / Actor
Self
Struggle
Years
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If I could put my finger on it, I'd bottle it and sell it. I came down here originally in 1972 with some drunken fraternity guys and had never seen anything like it - the climate, the smells. It's the cradle of music; it just flipped me. Someone suggested that there's an incomplete part of our chromosomes that gets repaired or found when we hit New Orleans. Some of us just belong here.
John Goodman / Actor
Guy
New Orleans
Smell
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I ain't never been in no college with famous people. I was a drifter for a while. I just was desperate to fit in with a group. Really, I was swimming. I was lost, treading water, trying to find my way. I wanted to play football. It didn't work out. I didn't really know what I wanted until I found acting in a theater department, and then everything just fell into place, and I had a passion about something. Then, I started living my life.
John Goodman / Actor
Football
Passion
Swimming
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