John Goodman - biography

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

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

“TV is the best babysitter.”

“Too much emphasis on celebrity bullshit these days.  Every time you turn around, there’s another goddam TV talk show - what Connie Francis had for breakfast today.  And people eat it up.  That’s kinda scary - like they don’t have anything better to do than that.”

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

“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.”

“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’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.”

“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.”

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

John Goodman has appeared in the following films:
Jailbait Babysitter (1977)
Eddie Macon’s Run (1983)
The Survivors (1983)
Maria’s Lovers (1984)
Revenge of the Nerds (1984)
Sweet Dreams (1985)
The Big Easy (1986)
True Stories (1986)
Raising Arizona (1987)
Burglar (1987)
Punchline (1988)
Everybody’s All-American (1988)
The Wrong Guys (1988)
Always (1989)
Sea of Love (1989)
Stella (1990)
Arachnophobia (1990)
King Ralph (1991)
Barton Fink (1991)
The Babe (1992)
Matinee (1993)
We’re Back! A Dinosaur’s Story (1993)
Born Yesterday (1993)
The Flintstones (1994)
The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)
Pie in the Sky (1996)
The Borrowers (1997)
Blues Brothers 2000 (1998)
Fallen (1998)
The Real Macaw (1998)
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie (1998)
Bringing Out the Dead (1999)
The Runner (1999)
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle (2000)
What Planet Are You From? (2000)
Coyote Ugly (2000)
The Emperor’s New Groove (2000)
Happy Birthday (2001)
One Night at McCool’s (2001)
My First Mister (2001)
Monsters, Inc. (2001)
Storytelling (2001)
Dirty Deeds (2002)
Masked and Anonymous (2003)
The Jungle Book 2 (2003)
Beyond the Sea (2004)
Clifford’s Really Big Movie (2004)
Home of Phobia (2004)
Marilyn Hotchkiss’ Ballroom Dancing & Charm School (2005)
Cars (2006)
Drunkboat (2007)
Evan Almighty (2007)
Bee Movie (2007)
Death Sentence (2007)
Speed Racer (2008)
Gigantic (2008)
Beyond All Boundaries (2009)
Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009)
The Princess and the Frog (2009)
In the Electric Mist (2009)
Alabama Moon (2009)
Pope Joan (2009)
The Artist (2011)
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011)
Spring Break ’83 (2012)


John Goodman contributed to the screenplay for the following films:
The Dot Man (2008)