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 travel for work, but recently, friends said I should take major trips.
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He was a great man. And he was also me.
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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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Oh yeah, oohing and ahhing, that's how it always starts, but later there's the running and screaming.
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I don't go to these places where there are belly dancers and this and that.
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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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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 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 mysterious what attracts you to a person.
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Even if I don't have a job, I work on plays and scenes.
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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.
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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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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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It's an important fact of life, war.
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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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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.
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I've turned my guest house into this little studio, and we have actors come over and do readings.
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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.