Jeff Goldblum Quotes

The marrying of an actor and his whimsical and theatrical vision is very enjoyable, because he wants it to be filled with something honest, truthful, human, soulful, substantial.

I like the challenge. I like a good, meaty experience for me.

I love to be directed. They can trust me and go.

This was one of the places people told me to go, it was one the big trips that you should see: Alaska.

The original settlers of Alaska apparently were Russian.

It's nice to play a character that has a soulful, dependent, close relationship. It must mean my character is interesting in some way.

The universe is so big, there's so many worlds, there must be one of them or more, something that's alive.

Well, Well, Well, its certainly a compelling provocative exciting delicious to think about idea, smart people say the universe is so big there must be something statistically it could be likely there could be something happening on some other world.

Oh yeah, oohing and ahhing, that's how it always starts, but later there's the running and screaming.

People know that both my parents were shrinks so I was sort of raised in an atmosphere where there was that interest in the human mechanism and the human psyche and what makes people tick. And yes, I think I'm particularly creative and adventurous and improvisational and spontaneous in my inner impulses and patterns and deeply curious and appetized in the unfathomably mysterious and delicious phenomena that is the human being and who we really are.

As soon as you're interested in what is good taste, then you're in bad taste land already. What's comfortable and what represents your life, what's unique and individual about you, that's style.

Sometimes I think that people's characters get forged, at least in part, from their names.

At the end of the movie all of us have this shared redemption.

It's mysterious what attracts you to a person.

I like how time goes on set. It's almost like time on an airplane or something where people are together. It's a different, very trippy kind of time, I find, because you're together in imaginary time where you're out of time. You're called upon to be present and honor what can happen in the moment. And the whole day can go like that. The whole day can be a kind of meditation.

No matter how you travel, it's still you going.

I've turned my guest house into this little studio, and we have actors come over and do readings.

He was a great man. And he was also me.

You want to be in a movie where your part works. That's the main thing. No matter how you beat yourself working on the thing, if it doesn't work, it doesn't work.

To be able to always have a super sense of who I was and my own real identity and be petty and seem informed and always thinking in thoughts would be great.

It's best not to stare at the sun during an eclipse.

I love the ocean. Boats, not so much.

I now, more and more, appreciate when I'm in a group of good people and get to work in good movies and projects. I'm wildly grateful and appreciative.

An actor wants to get up every day and they can't think of anything particularly more fun to do than getting into a made-up situation and living it out as if it's real.

I love both puppies and kitties. I could just scrunch up their little faces!

There is a fine line between passion and gas.

My life has been transformed by great teachers all the way ...

If any movie people are watching this show, please, for me, have some respect. You wanna sell some tickets, act like you know what you're talking about.

My friend Ed Begley goes fishing. It's a little smelly to me, I don't like it so much. I like to eat fish, but I don't like to catch them.

It's an important fact of life, war.

I like the idea of being a student, and I play with very good musicians. So playing with them allows me to get better. My aim is to get better, but I really love it for its own sake.

No. I'm simply saying that life, uh, finds a way.

Amazing tradition. They throw a great party for you on the one day they know you can't come.

God help us we're in the hands of engineers.

Well, of course I would choose to be the top scientist in my field.

I'm always interested in the unexpected and know that things, especially in show business, but in life generally, are inevitably fleeting to one extent.

Hawaii can be heaven and it can be hell.

It's not charming to go on a show and say, I dunno. It doesn't fool anybody. There's nothing glamorous about it at all.

Yeah but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could they didn't stop to think if they should.

I do a lot of talking, playing with the audience, but I don't really know what that's going to be. Somebody kind of feeds me cold. He gives me these kind of cold games that I play with the audience or quizzes that I do with them.

Actors don't necessarily want to be famous or rich or anything else. It's a very bad gamble if that's what you're after.