Jeff Goldblum Quotes

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

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. ~ Jeff Goldblum

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. ~ Jeff Goldblum

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. ~ Jeff Goldblum

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. ~ Jeff Goldblum

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. ~ Jeff Goldblum

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

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. ~ Jeff Goldblum

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. ~ Jeff Goldblum

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

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

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. ~ Jeff Goldblum

It's mysterious what attracts you to a person. ~ Jeff Goldblum

I dreamed I was a man. But now the dream is over. ~ Jeff Goldblum In The Fly

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. ~ Jeff Goldblum

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

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

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. ~ Jeff Goldblum

The universe is arbitrary. Just look at Jeff Goldblum. ~ Evan Mandery

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. ~ Jeff Goldblum

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

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

Hawaii can be heaven and it can be hell. ~ Jeff Goldblum

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

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. ~ Jeff Goldblum

It's an important fact of life, war. ~ Jeff Goldblum

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

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

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

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

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

Who should play the lead role in a film about me? Dunno. Danny De Vito? Jeff Goldblum? Meryl Streep? Someone of that kind. ~ Douglas Adams

I love the ocean. Boats, not so much. ~ Jeff Goldblum

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. ~ Jeff Goldblum

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. ~ Jeff Goldblum

There is a fine line between passion and gas. ~ Jeff Goldblum

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

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

The original settlers of Alaska apparently were Russian. ~ Jeff Goldblum

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. ~ Jeff Goldblum

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. ~ Jeff Goldblum

Im jeff goldblum in jurassic park for u
i point out human beings' exploitation of the natural world
thats my main function
also im arrogant and i like u ~ Steve Roggenbuck

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

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

He was a great man. And he was also me. ~ Jeff Goldblum

You might be a redneck if your mother has been involved in a fist fight at a high school sports event. ~ Jeff Foxworthy

Gerard turned away and ignored the cruelty of the meerkats, tore it from his mind. Lucretia needed a heart. ~ Jeff VanderMeer

Annoyance, Eisenhower knew that the prolonged ~ Jeff Shaara

To find your way, you will need courage. Lots of it. If you don't have it, fake it until you make it. Soulshapers are artists, but they are also warriors. It is no easy feat to shape the inner world. You need the heart of a lion to overcome the odds. You need to fight for your right to the light. ~ Jeff Brown

You might be a redneck if you prominently display a gift you bought at Graceland. ~ Jeff Foxworthy

She's a tear that hangs inside my soul forever ~ Jeff Buckley

Nowadays, in the contract that actors sign, you have to agree that you're going to do a certain amount of publicity-the hard part they don't pay you for. ~ Jeff Bridges

I'm a trader. Under the right circumstances, I'd consider a new boat. I'm not ruling it out. ~ Jeff Greene

So I'll wait for you ... And I'll burn Will I ever see your sweet return? Oh, will I ever learn? Oh, Lover, you should've come over Cause it's not too late. ~ Jeff Buckley

He was also, according to his file, "a first-rate scientist partial to beer," the kind of mind Control had seen before. It needed dulling to slow it down or to distance itself from the possibility of despair. Beer versus scientist represented a kind of schism between the banality of speech versus the originality of thought. An ongoing battle. ~ Jeff VanderMeer

Jeff," she said, sobbing, "I'm scared! I don't want to die! Not ... die forever, and - "
He hugged her tightly, rocked her in his arms and felt his own tears trickle down his face. "Just think of how we've lived. Think of all we've done, and let's try to be grateful for that."
"But we could have done so much more. We could have - "
"Hush," he whispered. "We did all we could. More than either of us ever dreamed when we were first starting out."
She leaned back, searched his eyes as if seeing them for the first time, or the last. "I know," she sighed. "It's just ... I got so used to the endless possibilities, the time ... never being bound by our mistakes, always knowing we could go back and change things, make them better. But we didn't, did we? We only made things different. ~ Ken Grimwood

When you are in doubt, just remember to drive toward water. You can always change directions once you get in the car. ~ Jeff Goins

It was a small triumph, but it was just about the only one I got for the rest of the week. As I trudged through my daily routine, Robert trudged along with me. He did not really get directly in my way too often, but every time I turned around he was there, a frown of concentration on his face, and usually some kind of inane question: Why did I do that? Why was it important to do that? Did I do that often? How many killers had I caught by doing that? Were they serial killers? Were there a lot of serial killers in Miami? A lot of the time the questions were completely unrelated to whatever I was doing, which made the whole thing seem even more pointlessly annoying. I could understand that it was a little hard for someone like him to frame intelligent questions about gas chromatography, but then, why watch me do it in the first place? Why couldn't he just go sit in a sports bar and text me his questions while he sipped a beer and watched a ball game? ~ Jeff Lindsay

There, scuttling across the floor, blind and querulous, is the old cell phone - scrabbling and bulky, trying to get away from you. ~ Jeff VanderMeer

Let's drive our
Volvo into a brick wall to make

Rosie Perez feel better. ~ Donora A. Rihn

It gives me more breadth as an actor and as an artist to not be pigeonholed. ~ Jeff Bridges

A bird painted not with beauty but with all the dirt and wounds collected in a long hard life, in battle, in love, with torn feathers and a busted leg and a chipped beak and one of its eyes half closed; and yet a bird of deeper loveliness for all of that. ~ Jeff Noon

I think people fancy me. They can't figure me out. I'm an attractive guy. I make good money and I score goals. I'm the kind of guy I believe people love. And, at the same time, they can't figure out why they love me so much, so they decide to hate me. ~ Jeff Cunningham

Pining for what could have been only holds people back from living their lives now. Life is full of surprises, and it doesn't help us to fixate on regrets or try to recover what has been lost. ~ Jeff Goins

George Washington, Andrew Jackson, William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor, Ulysses Grant, Rutherford Hayes, James Garfield, Benjamin Harrison, Theodore Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower all rode their wartime heroics into the White House. ~ Jeff Greenfield

Lies are like muscles: it takes practice to make them strong. ~ Jeff Ashton

I guess you could say I'm like a film director but my movies have only one frame. ~ Jeff Wall

I'm a very emotional person. If I've got something on my mind, that would stop me from giving my best. ~ Jeff Beck

I play purely from the heart, y'know, and so if it doesn't work the first couple of hours, forget it. ~ Jeff Beck

Deborah just watched him as he skidded to a stop in front of her. He seemed young for a dentist, maybe thirty, and in all honesty he looked a little too buff, too, as though he had been pumping iron when he should have been filling cavities. Deborah ~ Jeff Lindsay

What do I do? (Jeff)
Well, not to insult a man who looks like a rocket scientist in comparison to you, but ... run, Forrest, run. (Rafael) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon

I think America's obsession with guns and with violence in media and society is a horrible sickness. ~ Jeff Lemire

I got married to an amazing woman, had 2 awesome kids and toured with Jeff Beck, I can die a happy man now. ~ Gary Hoey

Obama's record on climate issues is not all bad. ~ Jeff Goodell

Perseverance is hard.It's easy to grow impatient, restless, and bored. While faithfulness is not a sexy virtue, it is one of the most crucial. ~ Jeff Manion

A ghost bird might be a hawk in one place, a crow in another, depending on the context. The sparrow that shot up into the blue sky one morning might transform mid-flight into an osprey the next. This was the way of things here. There were no reasons so mighty that they could override the desire to be in accord with the tides and the passage of seasons and the rhythms underlying everything around me. ~ Jeff VanderMeer

It was fun being an actor, but by the time college rolled around, I was ready to try some new things. By the time I graduated, I realized I enjoyed having a normal life and I never went back. ~ Jeff Cohen

When I get to Washington, the people of Florida are going to know I'm not going to spend my first year having fundraisers to pay off a campaign debt. ~ Jeff Greene

We love things that are convenient. ~ Jeff Bridges

Who can I marry? Where can I live? What kind of career can I achieve? These are just some of the stories breaking with Anthem-like implications. And the ideas crushing the individual are all around us, chipping away at us constantly. ~ Jeff Britting

I still have a lot of faith that there's very few people who are savvy enough to actually produce a good sounding copy of the record. ~ Jeff Tweedy

In the '60s, I thought golf was bourgeois, so I didn't play at all for 20 years. ~ Jerry Jeff Walker

It took almost fifteen minutes to explain the situation. By the time I finished, my throat was dry and Demi's eyes were so wide that it seemed like they might fall out of her head. I glanced at Jeff, afraid of finding judgment or disapproval in his eyes. Not because it would change the way I felt about my brother, but because I liked Jeff, and it would be a shame to have to find a place to hide his body. ~ Seanan McGuire

You might be a redneck if there is a sheet hanging in your closet and a gun rack hanging in your truck. ~ Jeff Foxworthy

Anyway," Rita said, leaning back away from Cody. "It would save some money. Which we will need for the new pool cage, because they are very pricey." "All right," I said, not completely sure what I was agreeing to do. ~ Jeff Lindsay

What's in here? That hurt." He reached into the bag, frowning. "It better not be body parts." He pulled out the huge cinnamon roll and eyed it. "Ay, caramba. My village will not starve this year. We are very grateful, grasshopper." He bowed, holding up the pastry. "A debt repaid is a blessing on us all, my child. ~ Jeff Lindsay

These are people who wanted to provide for their family and wanted a better life. We've got to have a secure border. But we've also, we've got to act compassionately and recognize labor markets as well ... I've never thought that it's [path to citizenship] a bad thing. If somebody is going to be here for 20, 30 years, to give them some skin in the game, if you will, to hold out the prospect of citizenship. ~ Jeff Flake

I started off doing indie comics that I wrote and drew myself. I was doing those for ten years before I started to work for DC. The first book that I wrote for DC was for another artist. I did some backups in 'Adventure Comics' years ago starring The Atom. That's the first time that I ever wrote for another artist. ~ Jeff Lemire

Did you know that Jeff Bezos, in place of PowerPoint presentations in meetings, requires his execs to write six-page narrative memos? ~ Bryan Eisenberg

You thinks there's this thing between us, but there never was, and there never will be. - Amy Cahill ~ Jeff Hirsch

If a principle exists it must be immutable, for that is what a principle is - a truth standing apart from the mood of the times. ~ Jeff Cooper

I don't aim it at anybody specific, I don't aim my characters to make old people laugh or young people or professionals or blue collar, just whatever I think is going to be funny and it just so happens that. ~ Jeff Dunham