Jeff Goldblum Quotes
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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.
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I don't go to these places where there are belly dancers and this and that.
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Oh yeah, oohing and ahhing, that's how it always starts, but later there's the running and screaming.
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I travel for work, but recently, friends said I should take major trips.
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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.
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My life has been transformed by great teachers all the way.
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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.
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He was a great man. And he was also me.
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I thought, this is a good sign. There's something perfect and right about this.
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I like a pickled cucumber. A regular cucumber I'm not so interested in.
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I love to be directed. They can trust me and go.
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It's mysterious what attracts you to a person.
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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.
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Even if I don't have a job, I work on plays and scenes.
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God help us we're in the hands of engineers.
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You never know in a movie if it's going to be a sequel, but right now I'm proud of what we produced.
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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.
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It's an important fact of life, war.
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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.
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People work harder when conditions are worse.
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There is a thin line between passion and gas.
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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.
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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?
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Sometimes I think that people's characters get forged, at least in part, from their names.