Quotes by John Goodman

I'd bowled a lot, but I never really had proper lessons.
Pardon me for loitering in front of an orchestra.
I flew into New York for the Raising Arizona audition, and we just started joking around.
Yeah, the material's been good so far, although I'm sure there's got to be a drought coming someday.
When I was a kid, I loved Popeye, but the old ones, the real old ones.
TV is the best babysitter.
Then I started checking out blues albums from the library and playing the harp along with them.
That was all Rose, and Rose knew what she was doing. Her main thing was story.
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.
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.
Kids are at my level. I like goofing around with them.
It was cool for a couple of weeks, but how much bad golf can you play?
I don't need the bread, but it's nice to do something creative.
Basically, though, I'm just lucky to love what I do for a living.
Social Security's future has gotten worse, and each year we delay reform adds to the cost we are pushing off onto our children.
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.
It was a fight for a very long time. After the end of the first season, all that was done.
As far as I know, the guys at Pixar are opposed to a Monsters, Inc. sequel.
I'd like to come back because I really miss doing situation comedy.
I'm just a lazy boy. I'd rather sit in my recliner and act.
I'm really getting to appreciate traditional jazz now - the New Orleans stuff - a lot more than I did before.
If you want to direct, you've got to work.
Believe me, nobody likes to loaf more than me.
Success is falling in love with the problem instead of the solution.