John Goodman Quotes

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White Castle? Oh, yeah! Sliders. They taste better when you're drunk.

John Goodman
I just idolized Al Pacino, and I was afraid that, you know, he was gonna wipe his feet on me or put a cigarette out on my neck or something. But he was so full of fire. He had such passion for acting. It's nice to meet someone like that.

John Goodman
I went back to the house where I grew up the other day. I didn't want to go inside. It would be like going back to grade school and going to the urinal.

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How quick time goes by now, compared to when you were a kid. Summer used to last forever. Now it's twelve weeks.

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If you want to make a marriage work, you gotta forget about the things that nine times outta ten are not that important.

John Goodman
If the mortar and bricks are laid right, the building will last for a while.

John Goodman
I always overtip. Because at the end of the night, your feet hurt and you get to count it up and there's a nice feeling when you've gotten tipped well. I know what it's like. My mom lived on tips.

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There aren't many benefits that I can see in having a large frame. It's hard to sit on airplanes. It's hard to get into really cool cars. It's been hell on my knees. It's never really done me any good.

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You don't wanna meet a lot of your heroes. That can turn out bad.

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My daughter taught me to see things with a fresh slant. She has a vitality of spirit that I've traded in for a lot of cigarettes and beer over the years.

John Goodman
Junior high school's terrible. I had the tape on the glasses, the acne, and the what was the name of that shit? English Leather.

John Goodman
The best lesson my mother taught me? Wear clean underwear. For some reason she was obsessed with me getting hit by a car and having clean underwear in the ambulance.

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There's no formula to life. If I figured one out, I'd probably have to check out the next day. "Oh, Mr. Goodman, your seven o'clock stroke is here, sir."

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I would've liked to have met Hemingway. We probably would've gotten into a fight or something.

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Getting a script from the Coen brothers is like getting what you want for Christmas.

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She's been through a lot. New Orleans is the old broad that's sitting at the corner of the bar, listening to Patti Page, and remembering better days. But you can't quite get rid of her.

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

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