John Goodman

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“Pardon me for loitering in front of an orchestra.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“TV is the best babysitter.”

“Kids are at my level. I like goofing around with them.”

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