John Goodman Quotes (35 Quotes)

That was all Rose, and Rose knew what she was doing. Her main thing was story.

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

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

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

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

Pardon me for loitering in front of an orchestra.

When I was in high school playing against those guys I really didn't feel friendly towards them at all. I tried to make myself think I hated Unionville at the time, and there was definitely a lot of trash talking. You run into those guys all the time. It's pretty important to have those bragging rights so you can walk with your head a little higher. But now that I'm out of school and you see those guys there's no hate there. I have a lot of respect for them.

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.

The innovation is in the private sector. It's not merely that people want choice. We need creative solutions to problems, and you don't get that when you have a government monopoly.

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

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.

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

Believe me, nobody likes to loaf more than me.

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

I wish I could do it again. I didn't have enough time to get it right. (on playing Babe Ruth)

TV is the best babysitter.

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 key is who controls the money. We think you are going to do better if you control the money.

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

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

Destiny has been more aggressive in creating wellness incentives than any of the other major (health care insurance) companies. I know that it's of interest to employers. They believe that you can lower your health care costs by doing this. I don't know.

This isn't just a savings account. It's self-insurance for health care.

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

We're talking about moving to a world where individuals would own their insurance.

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.

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

The opportunity is to lower the cost of these drugs. The risk is that state Medicaid programs use this excuse to entirely deny some patients access to more effective and more expensive drugs which work for those patients.

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

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.

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

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

But yeah, I started to get stale around the middle of the second-to-last year. I didn't really know what to do with the character anymore.

We work hard, ... But, it does make farming more enjoyable.

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

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