Jeff Goldblum Quotes
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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.
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He was a great man. And he was also me.
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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.
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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.
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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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I travel for work, but recently, friends said I should take major trips.
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No pay, no Goldblum. That's it.
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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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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.
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The original settlers of Alaska apparently were Russian.
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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.
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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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It's best not to stare at the sun during an eclipse.
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I don't go to these places where there are belly dancers and this and that.
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I like a pickled cucumber. A regular cucumber I'm not so interested in.
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Going back to the noir fiction of the 30s, 40s and 50s. It's very contemporary.
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This was one of the places people told me to go, it was one the big trips that you should see: Alaska.
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At the end of the movie all of us have this shared redemption.
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Well, of course I would choose to be the top scientist in my field.
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Even if I don't have a job, I work on plays and scenes.
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The movie feels to me like a real work of lovely art.
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No matter how you travel, it's still you going.
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I love both puppies and kitties. I could just scrunch up their little faces!
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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.
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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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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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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.
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There is a fine line between passion and gas.
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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.
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My life has been transformed by great teachers all the way.
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