Jeff Goldblum quotes:

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

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

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

It's an important fact of life, war.

The original settlers of Alaska apparently were Russian.

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

I love the ocean. Boats, not so much.

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.

Hawaii can be heaven and it can be hell.

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

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

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.

It's mysterious what attracts you to a person.

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

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

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

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

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

It's a delight to trust somebody so completely.

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

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

I thought, this is a good sign. There's something perfect and right about this.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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.

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

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

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.

There is a fine line between passion and gas.

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

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

People work harder when conditions are worse.

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

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.

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.

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

In fact you can begin to discover and investigate whether you are an actor or not, whether you're in my view, qualified for a life in this profession or in this endeavor by checking yourself out and acting every day, getting plays and scripts and getting together with people and divvying up the parts and acting in one way or another, or writing things.

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.

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.

No pay, no Goldblum. That's it.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

I like little collaborations where the other thing happens, where it's half-baked or it's improvised, and let's develop it together. "What do you want to wear? Do you have an idea?" All that's fun to do, and I like that, but it doesn't take anything away.

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.