John Goodman Quotations

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

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

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.

[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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Believe me, nobody likes to loaf more than me.