John Goodman famous quotes

06-24-2025

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

#Kids #Keys #Library
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

#Fun #Worry #Relax
Read, read, read, read, read. Read everything. You canâ€™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

#World #Way
[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

#Struggle #Self #Years
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

#New Orleans #Smell #Guy
If I don't trust [in] it, then it's worthless.
-- John Goodman

#Worthless
Basically, though, I'm just lucky to love what I do for a living.
-- John Goodman

#Lucky
When I was a kid, I loved Popeye, but the old ones, the real old ones.
-- John Goodman

#Real #Kids #Popeye
I'd bowled a lot, but I never really had proper lessons.
-- John Goodman

#Lessons
I hated Woody Woodpecker and Scooby-Doo, but I was a cartoon freak.
-- John Goodman

#Cartoon #Woodpeckers #Freak
I don't need the bread, but it's nice to do something creative.
-- John Goodman

#Nice #Creative #Needs
I'd like to come back because I really miss doing situation comedy.
-- John Goodman

#Missing #Comedy #Situation
TV is the best babysitter.
-- John Goodman

#Tvs #Babysitter
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

#Believe #People #Stranger
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

#Laughter #Hate #Thinking
George Washington Bridge? You throw yourself off the Brooklyn Bridge, traditionally. George Washington Bridge, who does that?
-- John Goodman

#Bridges #Doe #Brooklyn
Lady, I got buddies who died face down in the muck so that you and I could enjoy this family restaurant!
-- John Goodman

#Faces #Restaurants #Enjoy
Kids are at my level. I like goofing around with them.
-- John Goodman

#Kids #Levels #Goofing Around
If you want to direct, you've got to work.
-- John Goodman

#Want #Direct
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

#People #Population #Poor
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

#Half #Als #Months
Youâ€™re entering a world of pain.
-- John Goodman

#Pain #Entering #World
As far as I know, the guys at Pixar are opposed to a Monsters, Inc. sequel.
-- John Goodman

#Guy #Monsters #Pixar
I'm really getting to appreciate traditional jazz now - the New Orleans stuff - a lot more than I did before.
-- John Goodman

#New Orleans #Appreciate #Stuff
Pardon me for loitering in front of an orchestra.
-- John Goodman

#Orchestra #Pardon Me #Pardon
I'm just a lazy boy. I'd rather sit in my recliner and act.
-- John Goodman

#Boys #Lazy
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

#Children #Years #Reform
Smokey, this is not 'Nam. This is bowling. There are rules.
-- John Goodman

#Bowling
Believe me, nobody likes to loaf more than me.
-- John Goodman

#Believe #Likes #Believe In Me

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