John Goodman Quotations

When I was in high school playing against those guys I really didn't feel friendly towards them at all. I tried to make myself think I hated Unionville at the time, and there was definitely a lot of trash talking. You run into those guys all the time. It's pretty important to have those bragging rights so you can walk with your head a little higher. But now that I'm out of school and you see those guys there's no hate there. I have a lot of respect for them.

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.

I wish I could do it again. I didn't have enough time to get it right. (on playing Babe Ruth)

Stanford is like a member of our family.

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.

We work hard, ... But, it does make farming more enjoyable.

We're talking about moving to a world where individuals would own their insurance.

The opportunity is to lower the cost of these drugs. The risk is that state Medicaid programs use this excuse to entirely deny some patients access to more effective and more expensive drugs which work for those patients.

What people really liked is that they genuinely loved each other,

Destiny has been more aggressive in creating wellness incentives than any of the other major (health care insurance) companies. I know that it's of interest to employers. They believe that you can lower your health care costs by doing this. I don't know.

This isn't just a savings account. It's self-insurance for health care.

There's a vibrant market for trophy buildings right now. But it's not the same for Class B buildings, particularly the ones with high vacancy rates. So developers are looking at them and thinking, Rather than spend the money it's going to take to lease them, why not sell some of the raw space at a good price?

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

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

It kind of gives them a good sense of what's out there beyond the compound walls,

It's been working really, really well. We both want to reduce overhead and stay viable.

It was more or less a familiarization patrol, and presence patrol.

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

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

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.

Gore is taking a reactionary approach: He is not rejecting just specific proposals, he is rejecting the whole idea of changing these programs. And that's too bad, because they have to change.

The key is who controls the money. We think you are going to do better if you control the money.

The innovation is in the private sector. It's not merely that people want choice. We need creative solutions to problems, and you don't get that when you have a government monopoly.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

You’re entering a world of pain.

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

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

Pardon me for loitering in front of an orchestra.

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

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.

TV is the best babysitter.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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