74 Quotes by John Goodman

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

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

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.

Gore is taking a reactionary approach: He is not rejecting just specific proposals, he is rejecting the whole idea of changing these programs. And that's too bad, because they have to change.

The key is who controls the money. We think you are going to do better if you control the money.

The innovation is in the private sector. It's not merely that people want choice. We need creative solutions to problems, and you don't get that when you have a government monopoly.

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

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

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.