Quotes by Bobcat Goldthwait

Being shocking and cruel is a commerce. It's an actual valued skill now. The thing that really annoys me, the perception of it is that it takes intelligence, and it doesn't.

All I do is I have this insulated life with my wife and my daughter and a couple of friends who I try to see, but it doesn't even happen.

I had fame and wealth and things that are supposed to make you happy, but I wasn't happy, because there's no importance on having a fulfilling life. So in my mid-40s, that was my pursuit - making films that interested me, films that I would like to go see.

When I was at my most outrageous and destructive, I alienated almost everybody.

The movies I make, I never see them as accurately portraying a life, but more like fables.

In the past, the movies I've made are perceived as dark, but a lot of comedies are way darker.

I don't get too hung up on what people think of me.

Every week, there's a different equivalent of Charlie Sheen having a breakdown. I knew about Kim Kardashian getting married - and then getting divorced - and there's no reason I should. I don't have hostility toward Kim Kardashian - just toward the people who take that stuff seriously.

Which is worse - being a has-been or being the guy interviewing a has-been?

To make the films I want, I just have to live within my means and scale down my lifestyle - and be with somebody who's cool with that.