In the past, the movies I've made are perceived as dark, but a lot of comedies are way darker.
— Bobcat Goldthwait
Which is worse - being a has-been or being the guy interviewing a has-been?
People go, 'Oh, Trump must be good for comedy,' and I go, 'Ehhh.'
I've probably done myself a disservice as a brand because the movies I've made. They've all been completely different.
I do live a very Hugh Beaumont existence. I'm up every morning, taking my kids to school and all that, which obviously does interest me. But then it's taking meetings with goofballs and auditioning for crap, and then I spend a lot of time on the road.
In the rock n' roll world, I'm someone who's responsible and levelheaded.
Michael Moore got booed at the Oscars, so how liberal is Hollywood? Honestly, it's not liberal enough for me!
I was in punk bands when I was a kid, and then I would do stand-up in between bands - which wasn't any different from my singing.
Whenever people hear that Kurt Cobain was a fan of my standup, it's like hearing Jimi Hendrix loved Buddy Hackett or something.
I actually believe that the basis of a good relationship isn't liking the same things, it's hating the same things.
I do think there are more people who would probably related to my movies and who aren't aware of them.
I think I hang out with some pretty witty people, but we're never that funny.
I started out making fun of comedy. Then I became the thing I was making fun of.
I like to go to the movies and watch characters who make me question how I see the world.
I didn't feel ever that people needed to know who I was.
I really like 'Disaster Artist.'
I'm kind of a dummy. I make movies and not realize until afterwards, 'Oh, I'm the protagonist.'
I don't get too hung up on what people think of me.
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.
I've been making fun of administrations since I was a teenager onstage.
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.
It's really hard to watch Leno. I set his chair on fire.
I don't read or watch anything that has to do with Lindsay Lohan.
I never was obsessed with comedians. When I was a little, little boy, I'd watch, like, George Carlin on 'Dinah Shore.'
I choose not to be in front of the camera. Sometimes I do get offered parts, but I really like just making movies and telling stories.
I continue to do standup because there's a connection with a live audience - there are skills that you do learn as a standup comedian that help you on a set.
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.'
I started doing stand-up when I was 15 and doing Letterman when I was 20. So I've been doing stand-up comedy and clubs for over 30 years. That's a long time.
I have an aversion to comedy where everybody speaks in punchlines.
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.
The movies I make don't take place in reality.
My heroes, growing up, were people like Andy Kaufman and Groucho Marx and people that very rarely drop the persona.
I like movies that don't fit in a category. Like, 'Get Out' - that was one of my favorite movies in a long time, and what is that?
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.
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.
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.'
Certainly, shows like 'Black Mirror' helped me. I should send them a fruit basket.
I was really big in the '80s.
I'm the Emily Dickinson of screenplays.
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.
I'm always amazed that people are interested in comedy.
I don't find movies shocking.
I'm always dealing with this sadness. I don't want to be Morrissey or anything, but it is a thing I deal with it. Every day, when I wake up, I have to make a decision to fight this depression. That sounds horrible but I'm fine with it; it's who I am; it's my life. I try not to let it cripple me.
My movies are always about the kooks and the outsiders.
I actually really like being in the woods.
Success is for creeps.
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 not into comedies that are joke-driven.
I started doing comedy when I was a teenager with Tom Kenny, who is the voice of SpongeBob. I don't want to name drop, but, I've known him since I was 6.
I like genre films.
