John Goodman Quotes

We`ll shoot in Los Angeles, on the same lot where we shot Roseanne. It`ll be difficult because I live in New Orleans. But I really enjoy doing sitcoms. You`ve got 22 minutes a week to put on a new play. It keeps me off the street. (about his role as a gay construction worker)

Doing Roseanne made me famous. To this day, people will call me Dan Arnold. They`ll shout out, `Where`s Roseanne?`

I wish I could do it again. I didn`t have enough time to get it right. (on his performance in The Babe (1992))

I flew into New York for the Raising Arizona audition, and we just started joking around. I started going through their résumé pile, looking at actors, and just kinda made myself at home in my obnoxious way. I think they cast me because I had a baby face and that was a motif of the film. (on how he met and started his relationship with the Coen Bros.)

I quit a year and a half ago and I turned into a werewolf. I went nuts. I`ve been smoking since I was in junior high school. I did a couple of episodes of The West Wing two years ago and I was in the middle of one of these psycho things and turned around and smacked the stage door as hard as I could and my fist immediately swelled up. Thank God I didn`t break anything, but that was the last episode I had of nicotine withdrawal. (on quitting smoking in 2003)

(2007 - After completing rehab at Promises in Malibu) For my family and myself, I voluntarily took the necessary steps to remain sober the rest of my life.

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.

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

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

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

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.

But yeah, I started to get stale around the middle of the second-to-last year. I didn`t really know what to do with the character anymore.

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

Then I started checking out blues albums from the library and playing the harp along with them.

TV is the best babysitter.

Pardon me for loitering in front of an orchestra.

Believe me, nobody likes to loaf more than me.

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.

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

That was all Rose, and Rose knew what she was doing. Her main thing was story.

Yeah, the material`s been good so far, although I`m sure there`s got to be a drought coming someday.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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 don`t need the bread, but it`s nice to do something creative.