Quotes from Bobcat Goldthwait

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

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.

My daughter and my wife inspire me to make movies.

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.

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

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

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

The doctor turned to me and asked, "Mr. Goldthwait, would you like to cut the cord?" And I said, "Isn't there anyone more qualified?"

We had a C-section. That's when the baby comes out like toast.

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.

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.

My wife and daughter both bust me on how much I am the guy yelling at kids to get off my lawn.

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.'

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

I really like and admire Michael Moore.

I have an aversion to comedy where everybody speaks in punchlines.

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

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