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.
John GoodmanI 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.
John GoodmanI 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.
John GoodmanThis 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.
John GoodmanGeorge Washington Bridge? You throw yourself off the Brooklyn Bridge, traditionally. George Washington Bridge, who does that?
John GoodmanPeople just do the strangest things when they believe they're entitled. But they do even stranger things when they just plain believe.
John GoodmanRelax. 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.
John GoodmanPeople 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.
John GoodmanBut I'm not as bad as Al Pacino - he doesn't even know what month it is half the time when he's working.
John GoodmanGiving up a lot of yourself isn't really that hard when you realize that you get more than you give up.
John GoodmanI'm really getting to appreciate traditional jazz now - the New Orleans stuff - a lot more than I did before.
John GoodmanIf 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[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.
John GoodmanSometimes 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.
John GoodmanSocial Security's future has gotten worse, and each year we delay reform adds to the cost we are pushing off onto our children.
John GoodmanLady, I got buddies who died face down in the muck so that you and I could enjoy this family restaurant!
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