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“When I was young, we couldn't afford much. But, my library card was my key to the world.”
-- John Goodman
#Kids #Keys #Library
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“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
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“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.”
-- John Goodman
#World #Way
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“[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
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“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
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“If I don't trust [in] it, then it's worthless.”
-- John Goodman
#Worthless
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“Basically, though, I'm just lucky to love what I do for a living.”
-- John Goodman
#Lucky
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“When I was a kid, I loved Popeye, but the old ones, the real old ones.”
-- John Goodman
#Real #Kids #Popeye
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“I'd bowled a lot, but I never really had proper lessons.”
-- John Goodman
#Lessons
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“I hated Woody Woodpecker and Scooby-Doo, but I was a cartoon freak.”
-- John Goodman
#Cartoon #Woodpeckers #Freak
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“I don't need the bread, but it's nice to do something creative.”
-- John Goodman
#Nice #Creative #Needs
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“I'd like to come back because I really miss doing situation comedy.”
-- John Goodman
#Missing #Comedy #Situation
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“TV is the best babysitter.”
-- John Goodman
#Tvs #Babysitter
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“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
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“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
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“George Washington Bridge? You throw yourself off the Brooklyn Bridge, traditionally. George Washington Bridge, who does that?”
-- John Goodman
#Bridges #Doe #Brooklyn
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“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
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“Kids are at my level. I like goofing around with them.”
-- John Goodman
#Kids #Levels #Goofing Around
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“If you want to direct, you've got to work.”
-- John Goodman
#Want #Direct
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“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
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“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
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“You’re entering a world of pain.”
-- John Goodman
#Pain #Entering #World
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“As far as I know, the guys at Pixar are opposed to a Monsters, Inc. sequel.”
-- John Goodman
#Guy #Monsters #Pixar
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“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
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“Pardon me for loitering in front of an orchestra.”
-- John Goodman
#Orchestra #Pardon Me #Pardon
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“I'm just a lazy boy. I'd rather sit in my recliner and act.”
-- John Goodman
#Boys #Lazy
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“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
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“Smokey, this is not 'Nam. This is bowling. There are rules.”
-- John Goodman
#Bowling
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“Believe me, nobody likes to loaf more than me.”
-- John Goodman
#Believe #Likes #Believe In Me
