John Goodman quotes:

I flew into New York for the Raising Arizona audition, and we just started joking around.

It was a fight for a very long time. After the end of the first season, all that was done.

It was cool for a couple of weeks, but how much bad golf can you play?

I hated Woody Woodpecker and Scooby-Doo, but I was a cartoon freak.

As far as I know, the guys at Pixar are opposed to a Monsters, Inc. sequel.

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.

TV is the best babysitter.

I'm really getting to appreciate traditional jazz now - the New Orleans stuff - a lot more than I did before.

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.

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.

George Washington Bridge? You throw yourself off the Brooklyn Bridge, traditionally. George Washington Bridge, who does that?

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.

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.

Kids are at my level. I like goofing around with them.

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

Yeah, the material's been good so far, although I'm sure there's got to be a drought coming someday.

Then I started checking out blues albums from the library and playing the harp along with them.

Smokey, this is not 'Nam. This is bowling. There are rules.

I don't need the bread, but it's nice to do something creative.

Pardon me for loitering in front of an orchestra.

When I was a kid, I loved Popeye, but the old ones, the real old ones.

Social Security's future has gotten worse, and each year we delay reform adds to the cost we are pushing off onto our children.

The power of laughter & love would beat out the power of fear every time.

Believe me, nobody likes to loaf more than me.

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.

I'd bowled a lot, but I never really had proper lessons.

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.

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.

Giving up a lot of yourself isn't really that hard when you realize that you get more than you give up.

If I don't trust [in] it, then it's worthless.

Basically, though, I'm just lucky to love what I do for a living.

I ain't never been in no college with famous people. I was a drifter for a while. I just was desperate to fit in with a group. Really, I was swimming. I was lost, treading water, trying to find my way. I wanted to play football. It didn't work out. I didn't really know what I wanted until I found acting in a theater department, and then everything just fell into place, and I had a passion about something. Then, I started living my life.

Lady, I got buddies who died face down in the muck so that you and I could enjoy this family restaurant!

You're entering a world of pain.

I'm just a lazy boy. I'd rather sit in my recliner and act.

People just do the strangest things when they believe they're entitled. But they do even stranger things when they just plain believe.

If you want to direct, you've got to work.

I'd like to come back because I really miss doing situation comedy.

[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.

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.