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
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.
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.
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.
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.
The power of laughter & love would beat out the power of fear every time.
As far as I know, the guys at Pixar are opposed to a Monsters, Inc. sequel.
When I was a kid, I loved Popeye, but the old ones, the real old ones.
If you want to direct, you've got to work.
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.