Top 55 Bobcat Goldthwait Quotes

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 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 have an aversion to comedy where everybody speaks in punchlines.

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

Certainly, shows like ‘Black Mirror’ helped me. I should send them a fruit basket.

I’m making movies about people as flawed as myself and the viewers. So if you just have a reptilian brain and live your life simply by reacting to things, my movies aren’t going to work for you.

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

If Jimmy Kimmel didn’t hire me, I wouldn’t have the kind of career I have. And I don’t know what kind of career I have, but he changed my life.

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 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?’

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.

Marketing movies is hard.

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

I’m kind of a dummy. I make movies and not realize until afterwards, ‘Oh, I’m the protagonist.’

I’m always amazed that people are interested in comedy.

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

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

If I was a young man, I might have bypassed the whole comedian-actor thing and just been a filmmaker. Then I’d probably have spent my whole life going, ‘I wonder if I could have been a comedian.’

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

The movies I make don’t take place in reality.

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

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

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

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.

I was really big in the ’80s.

Listen, you ignorant hillbillies, Lynyrd Skynyrd’s dead. They’re dead, they’re dead, they’re dead. The South’s not risin’ again. The slaves have been emancipated.

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

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.

People go, ‘Oh, Trump must be good for comedy,’ and I go, ‘Ehhh.’

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

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.

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.

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

It’s really hard to watch Leno. I set his chair on fire.

I’m fully aware of people’s perception of me, so when I start taking myself too seriously, I have to remember that, to them, I’m just the guy from ‘Police Academy.’

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

Sometimes the wheels just fall off a relationship.

‘The Blair Witch Project’ is a great movie.

Obviously I don’t hate America. I do believe that we are becoming – and I can only judge it by my lifetime, ’cause I don’t know what it was like in the 1800s – but it just seems that as a nation, we are becoming really, really nasty, and not concerned with any kind of truth.

My heroes, growing up, were people like Andy Kaufman and Groucho Marx and people that very rarely drop the persona.

I’m the Emily Dickinson of screenplays.

I do think there are more people who would probably related to my movies and who aren’t aware of them.

If you raise a cool adult, that’s an achievement.

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

I was in Ann Arbor, and I was told that this singer-songwriter guy wanted to meet me. It was Kurt Cobain. Nirvana had just made ‘Bleach.’ Kurt interviewed me on a college radio station. It was very strange. He was a fan of mine, and he gave me his album.

I’ve always been battling this perception people have of me, this character. It follows me around. ‘Bubba the Bear’ shows up when I’m checking into a hotel, when I’m on a plane. I can’t get upset with people if they’re only aware of a small part of my body of work. But inside I do.

My daughter and my wife inspire me to make movies.

I don’t read or watch anything that has to do with Lindsay Lohan.

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.

I’m not into comedies that are joke-driven.

I started out making fun of comedy. Then I became the thing I was making fun of.

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

Even when I was a kid – I was really young – I was drawn to comedy.