“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.”
― Bobcat Goldthwait
“I always just felt more comfortable just kind of hiding behind a character than being myself onstage.”
― Bobcat Goldthwait
“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.”
― Bobcat Goldthwait
“As long as there’s a strong theme that I can identify with, that’s what makes me interested in writing.”
― Bobcat Goldthwait
“Sometimes the wheels just fall off a relationship.”
― Bobcat Goldthwait
“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.”
― Bobcat Goldthwait
“I actually believe that the basis of a good relationship isn’t liking the same things, it’s hating the same things.”
― Bobcat Goldthwait
“Certainly, shows like ‘Black Mirror’ helped me. I should send them a fruit basket.”
― Bobcat Goldthwait
“I’m kind of a dummy. I make movies and not realize until afterwards, ‘Oh, I’m the protagonist.’”
― Bobcat Goldthwait
“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.”
― Bobcat Goldthwait
“I like genre films.”
― Bobcat Goldthwait
“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?”
― Bobcat Goldthwait
“I really like ‘Disaster Artist.’”
― Bobcat Goldthwait
“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.”
― Bobcat Goldthwait
“My heroes, growing up, were people like Andy Kaufman and Groucho Marx and people that very rarely drop the persona.”
― Bobcat Goldthwait
“I didn’t feel ever that people needed to know who I was.”
― Bobcat Goldthwait
“I’m not into comedies that are joke-driven.”
― Bobcat Goldthwait
“The movies I make don’t take place in reality.”
― Bobcat Goldthwait
“I like to go to the movies and watch characters who make me question how I see the world.”
― Bobcat Goldthwait
“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.”
― Bobcat Goldthwait
“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.”
― Bobcat Goldthwait
“I started out making fun of comedy. Then I became the thing I was making fun of.”
― Bobcat Goldthwait
“Success is for creeps.”
― Bobcat Goldthwait
“I have an aversion to comedy where everybody speaks in punchlines.”
― Bobcat Goldthwait
“I think I hang out with some pretty witty people, but we’re never that funny.”
― Bobcat Goldthwait
“I actually really like being in the woods.”
― Bobcat Goldthwait
“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.”
― Bobcat Goldthwait
“I do think there are more people who would probably related to my movies and who aren’t aware of them.”
― Bobcat Goldthwait
“My movies are always about the kooks and the outsiders.”
― Bobcat Goldthwait
“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.’”
― Bobcat Goldthwait
“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.”
― Bobcat Goldthwait
“Whenever people hear that Kurt Cobain was a fan of my standup, it’s like hearing Jimi Hendrix loved Buddy Hackett or something.”
― Bobcat Goldthwait
“I don’t find movies shocking.”
― Bobcat Goldthwait
“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.”
― Bobcat Goldthwait
“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.”
― Bobcat Goldthwait
“I’m always amazed that people are interested in comedy.”
― Bobcat Goldthwait
“I never was obsessed with comedians. When I was a little, little boy, I’d watch, like, George Carlin on ‘Dinah Shore.’”
― Bobcat Goldthwait
“Michael Moore got booed at the Oscars, so how liberal is Hollywood? Honestly, it’s not liberal enough for me!”
― Bobcat Goldthwait
“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.”
― Bobcat Goldthwait
“I don’t read or watch anything that has to do with Lindsay Lohan.”
― Bobcat Goldthwait
“In the rock n’ roll world, I’m someone who’s responsible and levelheaded.”
― Bobcat Goldthwait
“I’m the Emily Dickinson of screenplays.”
― Bobcat Goldthwait
“It’s really hard to watch Leno. I set his chair on fire.”
― Bobcat Goldthwait
“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.”
― Bobcat Goldthwait
“I was really big in the ’80s.”
― Bobcat Goldthwait
“I’ve probably done myself a disservice as a brand because the movies I’ve made. They’ve all been completely different.”
― Bobcat Goldthwait
“I’ve been making fun of administrations since I was a teenager onstage.”
― Bobcat Goldthwait
“People go, ‘Oh, Trump must be good for comedy,’ and I go, ‘Ehhh.’”
― Bobcat Goldthwait
“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.’”
― Bobcat Goldthwait
“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.”
― Bobcat Goldthwait
“Which is worse – being a has-been or being the guy interviewing a has-been?”
― Bobcat Goldthwait
“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.”
― Bobcat Goldthwait
“I don’t get too hung up on what people think of me.”
― Bobcat Goldthwait
“In the past, the movies I’ve made are perceived as dark, but a lot of comedies are way darker.”
― Bobcat Goldthwait
“The movies I make, I never see them as accurately portraying a life, but more like fables.”
― Bobcat Goldthwait
“When I was at my most outrageous and destructive, I alienated almost everybody.”
― Bobcat Goldthwait
“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.”
― Bobcat Goldthwait
“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.”
― Bobcat Goldthwait
“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.”
― Bobcat Goldthwait
“If you raise a cool adult, that’s an achievement.”
― Bobcat Goldthwait
“My wife and daughter both bust me on how much I am the guy yelling at kids to get off my lawn.”
― Bobcat Goldthwait
“I’ve been known to high-five, and I have a soft spot for Green Day.”
― Bobcat Goldthwait
“I’d still like to work with Woody Allen.”
― Bobcat Goldthwait
“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.”
― Bobcat Goldthwait
“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.”
― Bobcat Goldthwait
“I really like and admire Michael Moore.”
― Bobcat Goldthwait
“Even when I was a kid – I was really young – I was drawn to comedy.”
― Bobcat Goldthwait
“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.”
― Bobcat Goldthwait
“I think, like, in real life, I’m actually quiet, and I mumble a lot. But that’s not very lucrative.”
― Bobcat Goldthwait
“The first time I was on Letterman, I was, like, 20 years old, and I was on a show called ‘Camping with Barry White Night.’”
― Bobcat Goldthwait
“Although it sounds very trite, I wish people were nice.”
― Bobcat Goldthwait
“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.”
― Bobcat Goldthwait
“When Will.I.Am punched Perez Hilton, I immediately purchased a bunch of their music.”
― Bobcat Goldthwait
“Trust me: I entertain Joe Six-Pack 30 weekends a year. I don’t really think that I’m an elitist.”
― Bobcat Goldthwait
“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?’”
― Bobcat Goldthwait
“Marketing movies is hard.”
― Bobcat Goldthwait
“I try not to stick to any one thing, you know. That’s always been important to me.”
― Bobcat Goldthwait
“I was actually offered a talk show on CBS at one point, and I just didn’t want to do it.”
― Bobcat Goldthwait
“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.’”
― Bobcat Goldthwait
“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.”
― Bobcat Goldthwait
“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.”
― Bobcat Goldthwait
“In genre movies, you usually not only hate the characters, you sometimes hate them so much that you hate the actors playing them.”
― Bobcat Goldthwait
“I’m really not a fan of letting the audience live vicariously through stuff.”
― Bobcat Goldthwait
“I’m a weird mixture of being cynical but at the same time wanting to live in a world where Bigfoot lives.”
― Bobcat Goldthwait
“I’m a redneck.”
― Bobcat Goldthwait
“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.”
― Bobcat Goldthwait
“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.”
― Bobcat Goldthwait
“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.”
― Bobcat Goldthwait
“’The Blair Witch Project’ is a great movie.”
― Bobcat Goldthwait
“I think, the first movie I saw that made me go, ‘How did they do that?’ was ‘Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster.’”
― Bobcat Goldthwait
“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.”
― Bobcat Goldthwait
“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.”
― Bobcat Goldthwait
“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.”
― Bobcat Goldthwait
“I like writing and directing. I enjoy telling stories, and I think it’s born in a comedian to end up directing.”
― Bobcat Goldthwait
“My daughter and my wife inspire me to make movies.”
― Bobcat Goldthwait
“I would love to make a horror picture!”
― Bobcat Goldthwait
“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.”
― Bobcat Goldthwait
“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.”
― Bobcat Goldthwait
“When I get to make a movie, I really try to make it on my own terms.”
― Bobcat Goldthwait
“My approach to making movies is different than other people, because I just write a lot of screenplays. I’m constantly writing screenplays.”
― Bobcat Goldthwait
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