John Goodman
John Goodman
John Stephen Goodmanis an American actor. Early in his career, he was best known for playing Dan Conner on the ABC TV series Roseanne, for which he won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in 1993. He is also a regular collaborator with the Coen brothers on such films as Raising Arizona, Barton Fink, The Big Lebowski, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, and Inside Llewyn Davis. Goodman's voice roles in animated films include Pacha in Disney's The Emperor's New...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActor
Date of Birth20 June 1952
CountryUnited States of America
John Goodman quotes about
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.
If I don't trust [in] it, then it's worthless.
TV is the best babysitter.
Pardon me for loitering in front of an orchestra.
You’re entering a world of pain.
George Washington Bridge? You throw yourself off the Brooklyn Bridge, traditionally. George Washington Bridge, who does that?
I'm just a lazy boy. I'd rather sit in my recliner and act.
I don't need the bread, but it's nice to do something creative.
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.
Smokey, this is not 'Nam. This is bowling. There are rules.
Lady, I got buddies who died face down in the muck so that you and I could enjoy this family restaurant!
I'm really getting to appreciate traditional jazz now - the New Orleans stuff - a lot more than I did before.
I'd bowled a lot, but I never really had proper lessons.
The power of laughter & love would beat out the power of fear every time.