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
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.
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 flew into New York for the Raising Arizona audition, and we just started joking around.
The key is who controls the money. We think you are going to do better if you control the money.
It was more or less a familiarization patrol, and presence patrol.
Then I started checking out blues albums from the library and playing the harp along with them.
What people really liked is that they genuinely loved each other,
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.
George Washington Bridge? You throw yourself off the Brooklyn Bridge, traditionally. George Washington Bridge, who does that?
I don't need the bread, but it's nice to do something creative.
Smokey, this is not 'Nam. This is bowling. There are rules.