Best 26 quotes of Jeff Goldblum on MyQuotes

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.

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

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

Hawaii can be heaven and it can be hell.

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.

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 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 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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

It's a delight to trust somebody so completely.

It's an important fact of life, war.

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.

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.

People work harder when conditions are worse.

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

The original settlers of Alaska apparently were Russian.

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

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

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.