John Goodman Quotes

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

When I was young, we couldn't afford much. But, my library card was my key to the world.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

TV is the best babysitter.

Pardon me for loitering in front of an orchestra.

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.

Giving up a lot of yourself isn't really that hard when you realize that you get more than you give up.

Smokey, this is not 'Nam. This is bowling. There are rules.

George Washington Bridge? You throw yourself off the Brooklyn Bridge, traditionally. George Washington Bridge, who does that?

If I don't trust [in] it, then it's worthless.

The power of laughter & love would beat out the power of fear every time.

I'm just a lazy boy. I'd rather sit in my recliner and act.

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.

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.

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

You’re entering a world of pain.

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

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

People just do the strangest things when they believe they're entitled. But they do even stranger things when they just plain believe.

[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.

Lady, I got buddies who died face down in the muck so that you and I could enjoy this family restaurant!

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

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

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

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.

Believe me, nobody likes to loaf more than me.

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

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

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.

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