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Drake Bell
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Trivia and Quotes
Quotes
 (2007 - After completing rehab at Promises in Malibu) For my family and myself, I voluntarily took the necessary steps to remain sober the rest of my life. Doing Roseanne made me famous. To this day, people will call me Dan Arnold. They`ll shout out, `Where`s Roseanne?`
I flew into New York for the Raising Arizona audition, and we just started joking around. I started going through their résumé pile, looking at actors, and just kinda made myself at home in my obnoxious way. I think they cast me because I had a baby face and that was a motif of the film. [on how he met and started his relationship with the Coen Bros.]
I quit a year and a half ago and I turned into a werewolf. I went nuts. I`ve been smoking since I was in junior high school. I did a couple of episodes of The West Wing two years ago and I was in the middle of one of these psycho things and turned around and smacked the stage door as hard as I could and my fist immediately swelled up. Thank God I didn`t break anything, but that was the last episode I had of nicotine withdrawal. [on quitting smoking in 2003]
I wish I could do it again. I didn`t have enough time to get it right. [on his performance in The Babe (1992)]
We`ll shoot in Los Angeles, on the same lot where we shot Roseanne. It`ll be difficult because I live in New Orleans. But I really enjoy doing sitcoms. You`ve got 22 minutes a week to put on a new play. It keeps me off the street. [about his role as a gay construction worker]
Trivia
Born to Leslie Goodman, Sr, a postal worker (died in 1955), and his wife Virginia, a store clerk and waitress, he has a sister, Elisabeth (born after father`s death), and a brother, Leslie, Jr (14 years senior to John).
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Bought a $4.6 million dollar home in Pacific Palisades, California (2008).
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His unique style of throwing darts, holding the pointing tip of the dart with his thumb and index finger and then throwing the dart with the opposite end pointing to the board, so that the dart makes a 180-degree in mid air, with the pointed end to the stuck board, can be seen in many of his movies such as King Ralph (1991).
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Is a huge fan of the St. Louis Cardinals baseball team.
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Started off in a small theater in Springboro, Ohio called the Miami Valley Dinner Theater now called La Comedia Dinner Theater. He appeared in the show "1776" in 1975.
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Was considered for the role of Buck Russell in Uncle Buck (1989).
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Appeared in "A Streetcar Named Desire" with Alec Baldwin. Baldwin, who played the role originated by Marlon Brando, has played Robert De Niro on "Saturday Night Live" (1975). Goodman has played Brando on "Saturday Night Live".
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Bought his home in New Orleans, Louisiana, from Trent Reznor, the brain behind the rock band Nine Inch Nails.
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Dan Conner, Goodman`s character on "Roseanne" (1988), was ranked #13 in TV Guide`s list of the "50 Greatest TV Dads of All Time" [20 June 2004 issue].
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Had to lose weight in order to play Babe Ruth.
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Moved to New York City shortly after college and lived in the Hell`s Kitchen neighborhood. One of the jobs he held down as a struggling actor was as a waiter.
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On "Inside the Actors Studio" he revealed that of all the projects he has worked on, "The Big Lebowski" is his favorite.
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Resides in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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Was a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon national fraternity (Missouri Eta chapter - Southwest Missouri State University).
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Was ordered by his doctors to lose a lot of weight in 2005. He referred to this as his biggest challenge since quitting smoking in 2003.
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Was the first guest on "Late Night with Conan O`Brien" (1993) when the show premiered on 13 September 1993.
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Daughter Molly Evangeline Goodman (born August 31st 1990) with Annabeth Hartzog.
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Graduated from Southwest Missouri State with a drama degree.
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Has played both the King of England (in King Ralph (1991)) and the President of the United States (in certain episodes of "The West Wing" (1999)).
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He was in the original Broadway cast of the 1985 musical "Big River", which is based on The Adventures of Huckelberry Finn. He played Pap Finn and can be heard on the cast recording singing "Guv`ment".
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He was regarded as being so crucial to the feature film version of The Flintstones (1994) that the project would have been shelved if he had turned down the role of Fred.
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His first job was as a bouncer.
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His first TV appearance was for a Burger King commercial in which he had no lines. He only had to bite into a Whopper sandwich with glee.
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Is one of the favorite hosts on "Saturday Night Live" (1975), hosting the show 11 times and making numerous surprise appearances starting from the 1989-1990 season to the present.
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Spouse: Annabeth Hartzog (27 October 1989 - present) 1 child
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Went to Affton High School in Affton, Missouri.
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