Goodman Quotes:

We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck. But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness.

- Ellen Goodman

source: Ellen Goodman (1981). “At Large”

topic: Love, Forgiveness, Gratitude, Gratefulness, Forgiveness Love

My real name's McGill. The Jew thing I just do for the homeboys. They all want a pipe-hitting member of the tribe, so to speak.

- Saul

topic: Real, Names, Hitting, Goodman, Homeboys

If you're committed enough, you can make any story work. I once told a woman I was Kevin Costner, and it worked because I believed it.

- Bob Odenkirk

topic: Stories, Kevin, Enough, Goodman

After  you’ve done all the work and prepared as much as you can, what the hell, you  might as well go out and have a good time.

- Benny Goodman

topic: Goodman

Some people are immune to good advice.

- Saul

source: "'Breaking Bad' Deconstruction, Ep. 11: 'Confessions'" by Tim Goodman, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 25, 2013.

topic: People, Advice, Good Advice, Goodman

In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right.

- Ellen Goodman

topic: Firsts, Journalism, Tension, Goodman

Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe and aren't even aware of.

- Ellen Goodman

topic: Powerful, Mind, Tradition, Old Traditions, Cultures And Traditions

The things we hate about ourselves aren't more real than things we like about ourselves.

- Ellen Goodman

topic: Confidence, Hate, Real, Goodman

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

topic: New Orleans, Smell, Guy, Chromosomes, Flipped

I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference.

- Ellen Goodman

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Volunteers Making A Difference, Goodman

Obviously you can't please everyone. I'm sure some people say, 'Bloody old Len Goodman gets on my nerves.

- Len Goodman

topic: People, Nerves, Please, Goodman

I could turn on my radio in the morning when I was getting dressed for school and hear Frank Sinatra and Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman and think this is the music. Now that music is art. Ellington is art. At that time it was just what you heard on the radio. Cole Porter was just a guy who wrote pretty songs and Billie Holliday would sing them.

- Woody Allen

source: CrankyCritic Interview, www.woodyallen.art.pl.

topic: Song, Art, Morning, Goodman

I was very excited to hone in on John Goodman. Casting John first really set the tone. He's very good at being terrifying and being hilarious, and I loved the idea of that character not being merely 'moustache-twirly'. I enjoyed being scared by him.

- Dan Trachtenberg

source: Source: www.empireonline.com

topic: Character, Ideas, Casting, Moustache, Goodman

I got my training here in Chicago at the Goodman School Of Drama, and a lot of my personal work is usually internal work and stuff. Everything else that goes on is icing on the cake - your wardrobe, your makeup, whatever else you have to do.

- Michael Rooker

source: Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. April 18, 2011.

topic: Drama, School, Makeup, Icing, Goodman

Above all else, [Benny Goodman] was a great player, one of the greatest American music has produced. He brought his absolute talent and his invincible love of music to the fore every time he played. There are many other things connected to society and ethnicity that are often mentioned in a discussion of Benny Goodman but all of them are connected to his overwhelming affection for the art of the music and the fairness it should be allowed to express.

- Stanley Crouch

topic: American Music, Goodman

I went to Bergdorf Goodman as an assistant in the fashion office and that was really my first exposure into the world of retail. Dawn Mello was president at the time and she had just left Gucci where she found Tom Ford.

- Roopal Patel

topic: Fashion, Office, President, Gucci, Bergdorf Goodman

[Goodman] became famous (or notorious) for staring at a player he didn't like. It was called 'the ray' by his men.

- Teddy Wilson

source: Teddy Wilson, Arie Ligthart, Humphrey van Loo (2001). “Teddy Wilson Talks Jazz: The Autobiography of Teddy Wilson”, p.52, A&C Black

topic: Player, Men, Rays, Goodman

I started off playing the clarinet, after I was inspired by listening to my dad's Benny Goodman records.

- Alvin Lee

topic: Dad, Listening, Records, Clarinet, Goodman

When I first met Benny Goodman he wouldn't talk about anything but clarinets, mouthpieces, reeds, etc. When I tried to change the subject, he said 'But that's what we have in common. We both play clarinet.' I said, 'No, Benny, that's where we're different. You play clarinet, I play music.'

- Artie Shaw

topic: Play, Different, Firsts, Clarinet, Mouthpiece

I am now of all humors that have showed themselves humors since the old days of goodman Adam to the pupil age of this present twelve o'clock at midnight.

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare (2000). “Henry IV”, p.69, Penguin

topic: Time, Age, Midnight, Goodman

Benny [Goodman] used to practice 15 times more than the whole band combined.

- Harry James

topic: Practice, Band, Used, Goodman

I had never heard anyone play like Benny Goodman and had never seen anyone like him on the stage. I realize now that what impressed me and stayed with me in memory was - the sounds he made. He played so purely. The music seemed to come from him, not just the instrument he played with such mastery.

- Marian Seldes

topic: Memories, Play, Sound, Goodman

The brilliant explosion known as Benny Goodman went off in 1935, and it hasn´t gone out yet.

- Whitney Balliett

topic: Gone, Brilliant, Explosions, Goodman

John Goodman's pretty dark - I love John Goodman.

- Todd Phillips

topic: Dark, Goodman

I went to the Goodman School of Drama in Chicago.

- Harvey Korman

topic: Drama, School, Chicago, Goodman

I'm a Gemini and Lucas Goodman is a Leo, so we definitely wanted some duality. We definitely balance each other out in a lot of ways, but we're also very different.

- Jillian Hervey

topic: Balance, Different, Way, Goodman

There's been so many, I think [Lucas Goodman and I] share this, but for us, Afropunk was a really big moment just because it was in New York.

- Jillian Hervey

topic: New York, Thinking, Moments, Goodman

We had spent a lot of time in London [with Lucas Goodman], which has been amazing, but also it was kind of a homecoming and we felt so surrounded by a specific community of people who are just so New York, so unapologetically themselves and so creative.

- Jillian Hervey

topic: New York, People, Creative, Goodman

I think also, obviously, having someone like Lucas [Goodman], and the people around me are very, not gender-driven or any of that, so when we come in as thing, that's what it is. You can work with us or not work with us and I think that has been helpful. I don't try to put myself in a vulnerable position in that way. I won't just sit quietly.

- Jillian Hervey

topic: Thinking, People, Trying, Goodman

I started getting orders from some of the leading stores Fred Segal, Bergdorf Goodman. I realized then that my bags were being noticed by the fashion world.

- Kate Spade

topic: Fashion, Order, Bags, Bergdorf Goodman, Goodman

[Luke, holding stormtrooper helmet.] Alas, poor stormtrooper, I knew ye not,/ yet have I taken both uniform and life/ From thee. What manner of a man wert thou?/ A man of inf'nite jest or cruelty?/ A man with helpmate and with children too?/ A man who hath his Empire serv'd with pride?/ A man, perhaps, who wish'd for perfect peace?/ What'er thou wert, goodman, thy pardon grant/ Unto the one who took thy place: e'en me.

- Ian Doescher

topic: Children, Taken, Pride, Stormtroopers, Perfect Peace

My my Laura Goodman. I must say that is a charming name for a charming young lady." "Eric's old." I broke in. "Really really old." "Er— really?" Laura asked. "Gosh you don't look even out of your thirties." "Tons of face-lifts. He's a surgical addict. I'm trying to get him help." I added defensively when they both gave me strange looks.

- MaryJanice Davidson

source: MaryJanice Davidson (2005). “Undead and Unappreciated: A Queen Betsy Novel”, p.155, Penguin

topic: Names, Trying, Looks, Laura, Goodman

The proper word for me," Robin Goodman says, "is me.

- Ali Smith

topic: Robins, Goodman

Benny Goodman was one of the big influences as a clarinet player. That's why I wanted the clarinet.

- Lee Konitz

topic: Music, Player, Influence, Clarinet, Goodman

Tanya Ward Goodman, writing with a big heart, clear eyes, and a light touch, allows us a privileged glimpse into the shabby, enchanted world of traveling carnivals, roadside attractions, and a beloved, eccentric father’s descent into Alzheimers. Just as her dad animated the handcarved, miniature western world of Tinkertown from coat hangers, inner tubes and old sewing machine motors, Tanya Ward Goodman has fashioned her complex and often hilarious memories into a beguiling, wry, and moving work of art.

- Michelle Huneven

topic: Art, Dad, Memories, Descent, Wry

I’m a huge fan of the program Democracy Now, which is hosted by Amy Goodman, and I subscribe to the podcast.

- Ellen Page

source: "Ellen Page’s Greenest Day". Interview with Maddie Oatman, www.motherjones.com. September 11, 2010.

topic: Democracy, Fans, Amy, Goodman

The first funeral for Andrew Goodman was at night and it was a lot of work. To begin with they had to kill him.

- Jimmy Breslin

source: "A talk with Jimmy Breslin, New York's "New Yorkiest" writer" by Jerry Schwartz, www.businessinsider.com. March 19, 2017.

topic: Night, Funeral, Firsts, Goodman

Literature is the one place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads, we can hear voices talking about everything in every possible way.

- Salman Rushdie

topic: Voice, Talking, Literature, Absolute Freedom, Goodman

These stories seem at times to be stories of a long-lost world when the city of New York was still filled with a river light, when you heard the Benny Goodman quartets from a radio in the corner stationery store, and when almost everybody wore a hat.

- John Cheever

topic: New York, Cities, Rivers, Stationery, Goodman

My idols are Richard Dreyfuss, Michael Keaton, John Goodman. Maybe that's what I want for me.

- Breckin Meyer

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Idols, Want, Goodman

Any page by Paul Goodman will give you not only originality and brilliance but wisdom, that is, something to think about. He is our peculiar, urban, twentieth-century Thoreau, the quintessential American mind of our time.

- Hayden Carruth

topic: Thinking, Giving, Mind, Goodman

Men and women in my lifetime have died fighting for the right to vote: people like James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, who were murdered while registering black voters in Mississippi in 1964, and Viola Liuzzo, who was murdered by the Ku Klux Klan in 1965 during the Selma march for voting rights.

- Jeff Greenfield

topic: Fighting, Men, Rights, Right To Vote, Viola

John Goodman is more that just a big guy, he's a wonderful actor.

- Gene Siskel

topic: Guy, Actors, Wonderful, Goodman, Big Guys

Paul Goodman was not ahead of his time but IN his time.

- Grace Paley

topic: Goodman

Benny Goodman plays the clarinet. I play music.

- Artie Shaw

topic: Play, Clarinet, Goodman

We live at a time that is notable for the polemical nature of discussions about identity, consciousness, rationality, agency, memory, and feeling. 'New atheists' and reductive materialists conduct gladiatorial debates against defenders of faith and enemies of reductionism. Lots of heat is produced, but, alas, little light is shed. How marvelous it is, then, to see this fine new book by Lenn E. Goodman and Gregory Caramenico. Here is a learned, illuminating, and decidedly non-polemical treatment of the classic questions of soul, mind, and brain-an exemplary work of scholarship.

- Robert P. George

topic: Atheist, Memories, Book, Marvelous, Reductionism

I love New York. It's given me so much as a designer. When I moved here, I wanted to tap into the glamour of the city immediately. More than anywhere else, New York offers itself up - you arrive and get a rush in a flash. It's dazzling. Everywhere you look, there is decoration, from a pair of jewel-encrusted shoes in the window in Bergdorf Goodman to the Chrysler Building. And New York is incredibly democratic. Everyone is packed into this tiny space. You are confronted with all manner of people, and I love that.

- Tom Ford

source: Interview with Daisy Garnett, nymag.com.

topic: New York, Cities, Shoes, I Love New York, Chrysler

Me, Billy Crystal and John Goodman hang out non-stop, and all we do is silly voices. We hang out in a little closet and do voices together.

- Bobby Moynihan

source: "Bobby Moynihan,‘Monsters University’ Star, On Working With Pixar & Chris Christie" by Christopher Rosen, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 20, 2013.

topic: Silly, Voice, Together, Goodman, Non Stop

John Goodman isn't fat. He's in a category beyond fat. What does one call it? Whalelike.

- Sam Kinison

topic: Goodman

I was once asked to do my Tarzan yell at Bergdorf Goodman, and a guard burst in with a gun! Now I only do it under controlled circumstances.

- Carol Burnett

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Gun, Circumstances, Bergdorf Goodman, Goodman