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.

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

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

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

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

I, uh, don't think I'm, y'know, so different than your average, y'know, average.

Don't knock rationalization. Where would we be without it? I don't know anyone who'd get through the day without two or three juicy rationalizations. They're more important than sex. Have you ever gone a week without a rationalization?

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

I like a pickled cucumber. A regular cucumber I'm not so interested in.

There is a fine line between passion and gas.

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

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

It's a delight to trust somebody so completely.

Hawaii can be heaven and it can be hell.

I had a brother who died early on - he was 23 when I was 19. And, boy, I certainly didn't expect that. That was utterly shocking.

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.

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.

It's mysterious what attracts you to a person.

I love the ocean. Boats, not so much.

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

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.

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

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

I'm a humble student of acting myself and part of that studentship is teaching.

The original settlers of Alaska apparently were Russian.

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.

Anybody can die, everything is fleeting, and you've just got to make sure that you catch up on what you can catch up on.

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

People work harder when conditions are worse.

I don't go to these places where there are belly dancers and this and that.

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.

Going back to the noir fiction of the 30s, 40s and 50s. It's very contemporary.

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.

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.

It's an important fact of life, war.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Involve yourself every day. Work hard and figure out how to love acting all day, every day. It's getting into a made-up situation and making it good and making it real and just playing, just practicing and playing. Like the musicians that I played piano with: they never expect to be rich or famous, but they, for the sheer joy of it, play every day, all day.

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

I'm always interested in craft and I was interested to see how people work. For me, it's a little like lessons at school.

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.

I travel for work, but recently, friends said I should take major trips.

The movie feels to me like a real work of lovely art.

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.

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.

Even if I don't have a job, I work on plays and scenes.

How can you say when you're attracted to something? It's not easy to articulate my tastes.