John Goodman quotes
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“When I was young, we couldn't afford much. But, my library card was my key to the world.”
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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 GoodmanSource : Source: collider.com
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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.”
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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 GoodmanSource : Source: collider.com
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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.”
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“If I don't trust [in] it, then it's worthless.”
-- John GoodmanSource : Source: collider.com
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“Basically, though, I'm just lucky to love what I do for a living.”
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“When I was a kid, I loved Popeye, but the old ones, the real old ones.”
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“I'd bowled a lot, but I never really had proper lessons.”
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“I hated Woody Woodpecker and Scooby-Doo, but I was a cartoon freak.”
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“I don't need the bread, but it's nice to do something creative.”
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“I'd like to come back because I really miss doing situation comedy.”
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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.”
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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.”
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“George Washington Bridge? You throw yourself off the Brooklyn Bridge, traditionally. George Washington Bridge, who does that?”
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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!”
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“Kids are at my level. I like goofing around with them.”
-- John GoodmanSource : "Chatter" by Jason Lynch, people.com. November 27, 2000.
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“If you want to direct, you've got to work.”
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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.”
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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.”
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“As far as I know, the guys at Pixar are opposed to a Monsters, Inc. sequel.”
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“I'm really getting to appreciate traditional jazz now - the New Orleans stuff - a lot more than I did before.”
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“Pardon me for loitering in front of an orchestra.”
-- John GoodmanSource : "PASSAGES: Oprah's Early Father's Day" by Stephen M. Silverman, people.com. May 5, 2003.
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“I'm just a lazy boy. I'd rather sit in my recliner and act.”
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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.”
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“Smokey, this is not 'Nam. This is bowling. There are rules.”
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“Believe me, nobody likes to loaf more than me.”
-- John Goodman
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