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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The original settlers of Alaska apparently were Russian.

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

People work harder when conditions are worse.

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

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

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

It's an important fact of life, war.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

I think we're dealing with a realm of human experience that doesn't get all that much attention on television.

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

No pay, no Goldblum. That's it.

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.

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