Jeff Goldblum Quotes - Page 2

I love the ocean. Boats, not so much.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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

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 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.

The original settlers of Alaska apparently were Russian.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Hawaii can be heaven and it can be hell.

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.

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.

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