John Goodman Quotes & Trivia

Quotes

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

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

Believe me, nobody likes to loaf more than me.

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.

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.

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

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

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

I lose things all the time, and I like to think that there's a reason behind it besides creeping senility or stupidism.

I miss the cast of Roseanne a lot.

I wish I had another crack at Babe Ruth. I really don't think I did him justice.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Pardon me for loitering in front of an orchestra.

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.

Social Security's future has gotten worse, and each year we delay reform adds to the cost we are pushing off onto our children.

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

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

TV is the best babysitter.

We have a real-estate venture, and I've invested in a radio station, and I'm in restaurants with one of my buddies.

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

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

Trivia

John starred as William “Butch” Gamble, a gay man returning to his Midwestern hometown in the short-lived (November 1, 2000-December 13, 2000) FOX television sitcom, Normal, Ohio for which he won the People’s Choice Award for Best Actor in a New Comedy Series, even though the show was not generally a success (thirteen episodes were made, but only seven aired).

John is being sued by Constantin Film Produktion, a German film company, which is demanding $3 million from the actor. A lawsuit filed on April 16, 2007 claims that he entered an oral agreement to play the role of Pope Sergius in an upcoming film titled, Pope Joan. John allegedly broke the verbal contract two months before production on the film was to start. He denies that any such agreement was ever made.

John was featured twice on the cover of Entertainment Weekly magazine: the May 1, 1992 issue publicizing The Babe, a film in which he had the leading role, and again, dressed as Fred Flintstone, he and the Hanna-Barbera cartoon Fred Flintstone appeared together on the June 3, 1994 issue promoting his new movie, The Flintstones.

John's favorite episode of Roseanne, the hit comedy series in which he played Dan Conner, is An Officer and a Gentleman, Season 2, Episode 38. He likes it because it dealt with something never really talked about-- the "almost" attraction between Jackie (Laurie Metcalf) and Dan. John finds Laurie to be an amazing actress and had fun playing off her in this episode.

John is a member of the fraternity Sigma Phi Episilon.

John participates in Mardi Gras each year that he is not busy filming.

John first appeared as the character, Mack McTeer, replacing the late John Belushi (Jake Blues), Dan Aykroyd’s partner in the Blues Brothers Band, on the March 25, 1995 episode of the NBC comedy series, Saturday Night Live. As Mack, he went on to star in the film, Blues Brothers 2000, and continued to perform alongside Aykroyd (Elwood Blues) and Jim Belushi (Zee Blues) through 2001, until health concerns forced him to bow out.

John, singing the song, "I'm Pyst," is one of the attractions as King Mattruss in the computer game, Pyst, a full motion video which behaves like an interactive slide show, and is a parody of the highly successful computer game, Myst.

John appears uncredited in the ABC comedy sitcom series’ premiere of Grace Under Fire as a State Patrol Officer who pulls Grace (Brett Butler) over for speeding.

John is the voice of Santa Claus Robot in a 1999 episode of Matt Groening’s animated comedy television series, Futurama, called “Xmas Story.”

John has no memory of his father, Leslie, a mail carrier who died of a heart attack in 1954 when John was almost two, leaving his mother, Virginia, pregnant with his sister, Elizabeth Ann, to care for John and his 16 year old brother, Les Jr.

John has appeared in two music videos: Good Golly Miss Molly with Little Richard, and Wild, Wild Life with the Talking Heads.

John is the voice of Rex in the animated children’s film, We’re Back! A Dinosaur Story released in 1993.

John was ordered by his doctor to lose 100 lbs. in 2005, a struggle that he considered his biggest challenge since he quit smoking in 2003.

John has “been” the King of England (in the 1991 feature film, King Ralph) and the President of the United States (on the NBC dramatic series, The West Wing, during the 2004-05 seasons: first as Speaker of the House, and then as former president).

John’s 21 appearances on the NBC comedy series, Saturday Night Live, includes 12 performances as the host and 9 cameos, at which time he acted out a total of 10 different impersonations and 3 different characters.

John attended Affton High School in unincorporated Affton, St. Louis County, Missouri, where he dedicated himself to playing football (the team won only one game). After graduating in 1970, he intermittently attended St. Louis Community College-Meramec, before transferring to Southwest Missouri State University.

John was the first guest to appear on NBC’s Late Night with Conan O’Brien on September 13, 1993 and received a “First Guest” medal distinguishing himself.