Top 39 John Goodman Quotes
#1. When I was a kid, I loved Popeye, but the old ones, the real old ones.
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#2. Giving up a lot of yourself isn't really that hard when you realize that you get more than you give up.
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#3. Yeah, the material's been good so far, although I'm sure there's got to be a drought coming someday.
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#4. I'd like to come back because I really miss doing situation comedy.
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#5. Smokey, this is not 'Nam. This is bowling. There are rules.
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#6. 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.
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#7. 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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#8. 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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#9. I'm really getting to appreciate traditional jazz now - the New Orleans stuff - a lot more than I did before.
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#10. 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.
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#11. If I don't trust [in] it, then it's worthless.
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#12. George Washington Bridge? You throw yourself off the Brooklyn Bridge, traditionally. George Washington Bridge, who does that?
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#13. Then I started checking out blues albums from the library and playing the harp along with them.
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#14. I flew into New York for the Raising Arizona audition, and we just started joking around.
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#15. 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.
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#16. As far as I know, the guys at Pixar are opposed to a Monsters, Inc. sequel.
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#17. Pardon me for loitering in front of an orchestra.
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#18. When I was young, we couldn't afford much. But, my library card was my key to the world.
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#19. 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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#20. 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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#21. It was cool for a couple of weeks, but how much bad golf can you play?
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#22. I'd bowled a lot, but I never really had proper lessons.
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#23. Kids are at my level. I like goofing around with them.
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#24. [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.
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#25. The power of laughter & love would beat out the power of fear every time.
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#26. I'm just a lazy boy. I'd rather sit in my recliner and act.
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#28. I hated Woody Woodpecker and Scooby-Doo, but I was a cartoon freak.
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#29. Basically, though, I'm just lucky to love what I do for a living.
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#30. I don't need the bread, but it's nice to do something creative.
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#31. That was all Rose, and Rose knew what she was doing. Her main thing was story.
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#32. If you want to direct, you've got to work.
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#33. 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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#34. 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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#35. It was a fight for a very long time. After the end of the first season, all that was done.
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#37. 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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#38. Believe me, nobody likes to loaf more than me.
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#39. 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.
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