Top 123 Quotes & Sayings by Bobcat Goldthwait - Page 2

As long as there's a strong theme that I can identify with, that's what makes me interested in writing.

I always just felt more comfortable just kind of hiding behind a character than being myself onstage.

I'm not really trying to reach a big mass of an audience. My movies are done for a tiny, tiny budget, and that affords me to make them more personal.

Marketing movies is hard.

Although it sounds very trite, I wish people were nice.

I was actually offered a talk show on CBS at one point, and I just didn't want to do it.

When I get to make a movie, I really try to make it on my own terms.

Sometimes the wheels just fall off a relationship.

My daughter and my wife inspire me to make movies.

I like writing and directing. I enjoy telling stories, and I think it's born in a comedian to end up directing.

I try not to stick to any one thing, you know. That's always been important to me.

I like stand-up. I've done it since I was a teenager, so it's kind of my first job and first kind of creative way to express myself.

I think, like, in real life, I'm actually quiet, and I mumble a lot. But that's not very lucrative.

I'd still like to work with Woody Allen.

When Will.I.Am punched Perez Hilton, I immediately purchased a bunch of their music.

I just write the stuff that comes out of me, and then after that, I try to get it made. But I don't think, 'Will I get the money?' and 'Who's this made for?'

People seem to think that I'm not aware of how people perceive me. But I'm the one that has to talk about 'Police Academy' all day long 27 years later. I'm totally aware of it.

At the same time most people were getting out of college, I was offered a buttload of cash to star in a movie. I don't think most students would have said no.

I've been known to high-five, and I have a soft spot for Green Day.

I had a standup act, and I ended up turning it into something that was really watered down and accessible. Something that went from scary and threatening to something that was almost to the point of being corny.

The thing that interested me, there are so many filmmakers I admire - like David Lynch and Quentin Tarantino - they have these themes where there's not much going on, but they were suspenseful.

I'm always wondering, if Bigfoot's not real, then why does this creature show up in all these different cultures? I'm always fascinated by that kind of stuff.

I was in this hamster wheel of being famous for being famous, much like a reality star. You would put me on a talkshow, I would say outrageous things. I was just perpetuating myself as a celebrity, and I found that really empty.

Trust me: I entertain Joe Six-Pack 30 weekends a year. I don't really think that I'm an elitist.

Occasionally I'll have a slip, and I might watch 'RuPaul's Drag Race' or something. But for the most part, I am out on the reality shows.

I really like and admire Michael Moore.

My approach to making movies is different than other people, because I just write a lot of screenplays. I'm constantly writing screenplays.

'The Blair Witch Project' is a great movie.

When I first started directing, I could have chosen a more lucrative path, with sitcoms and things like that. But I knew enough after the experiences I had in front of the camera that I was not going to do that, because I was just going to work on my own things or work with people I respected.

Every time I go to a march or a rally, and I post it on Instagram, people will go, 'I'm going to unfollow you!' And I'm like, 'I used to play arenas. I've lost a lot of fans. I'm fine with that. I've had people unfollowing me for years. You're way behind the times.'

I'm a weird mixture of being cynical but at the same time wanting to live in a world where Bigfoot lives.

In genre movies, you usually not only hate the characters, you sometimes hate them so much that you hate the actors playing them.

I would love to make a horror picture!

I'm really not a fan of letting the audience live vicariously through stuff.

The environment on the sets of the movies I make, it's usually all friends and people that know each other, because no one's getting rich or making money, so it's always about, hopefully, that everyone's on the same page.

If I ever got to do television, I would be interested in doing different kinds of characters and stories, and television doesn't lend itself to that.

I don't really pursue acting. I jokingly say that I retired right at the same time people stopped hiring me, but I really don't think I'm very good at it, and I'm not really interested in it anymore as an adult.

Be it in the movies I make or on stage, I think it's a trap to keep doing the same thing over and over again.

I think, the first movie I saw that made me go, 'How did they do that?' was 'Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster.'

Quit everything until you find something that you just cannot quit.

I lost my job, well I didn't lose it, I know where it is, there's just some other guy doing it now.

When I was a baby I had no teeth. I couldn't get a job and I couldn't eat meat.

What's the difference between a Dice Clay concert and a Klan rally? Nothing. Trick question.

That's human nature - we want to completely rewrite history so it can be comfortable. Without getting too profound, I'm pretty sure that's where the invention of the afterlife comes from. "We don't really become worm food. We go to a magical place with bunnies and rainbows."

How can you be a vegetarian atheist and own a gun? Well, that's who I am.

It's that weird need to make tragedy about us. When you look at 9/11, there's people who really died and family members who really suffered. And then I would be in Montana, and a guy would go, "You know, I was close to Ground Zero." And it's like, "What are you talking about? You're in Montana." Everybody had to make it about them.

I retired from acting the same time they stopped hiring me. But following my own thing of making these small indie movies has been the happiest I've ever been.

Go on, try weasel, try squirrel; it tastes like chicken, it tastes just like chicken! If it tastes just like chicken, why don't you gimme some damn chicken?

In my first stand-up acts there wasn't material even. You know, I'd go on stage and cry and read a Dear John letter or gut fish on stage. I could be odd - and it's what interested me as a comedian.

If you ever see me at a boat show or at a car show, blow my head off.

Well, I'm an uncle now ... don't know if I'm a good one. My nephew asked me the difference between a hamster and a gerbil and I told him I thought there was more dark meat on a gerbil.

Fame is like a big eraser. It's strange, now that I'm famous. In my parents' opinion, all the shitty things - all the wreckage of my past - is erased. Now it's like I was never the kid who got arrested. Now I'm a wonderful son.

Kurt (Cobain) was a fan of my standup, which was pretty weird. I know when people hear that, it's kind of like finding out that Jimi Hendrix really liked Buddy Hackett, but he interviewed me at a college radio station before they broke and did Bleach. And then, like, about two years later, I was opening for Nirvana at these huge sports arenas.

I'm against gun control. It's not that I like guns, it's just that allowing Americans to have guns will increase the chances that a bunch of rednecks will blow each other's heads off.

Don't hoo, hoo, hoo me. There's a fine line between hoo, hoo, hoo and hiel, hiel, hiel.

Animals may be our friends, but they won't pick you up at the airport.

My daughter went to the school, and it's a very, very progressive and liberal school, and my commencement speech was telling the kids just to always be willing to quit, and that they need to quit a lot in their lives, and keep on quitting, because all the happiness I've ever got was when I turned my back on things that everybody else thought would make you happy. I can smell parents' stomach acid right now, but they know that whole "You gotta get a job and you gotta settle for what people perceive as success" thing is really absurd.

If you ever see me getting beaten by the police, put down the video camera and come help me.

America’s one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.

I can't feel my face. I mean I can touch it. But I can't feel it inside.