Latest Jeff Goldblum Quotes from Interviews

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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.

  Jeff Goldblum

  Brother, Boys, Died

  Interview with Fred Armisen, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 21, 2016.

• 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.

  Jeff Goldblum

  Fleeting, Dies

  Interview with Fred Armisen, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 21, 2016.

• Sometimes I think that people's characters get forged, at least in part, from their names.

  Jeff Goldblum

  Character, Thinking, Names

  Interview with Fred Armisen, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 21, 2016.

• 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.

  Jeff Goldblum

  Airplane, People, Meditation

  Interview with Fred Armisen, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 21, 2016.

• 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.

  Jeff Goldblum

  Talking, Games, Play

  Interview with Fred Armisen, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 21, 2016.

• 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.

  Jeff Goldblum

  Play, Ideas, Get Better

  Interview with Fred Armisen, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 21, 2016.

• 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.

  Jeff Goldblum

  Real, Hard Work, Play

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  Jeff Goldblum

  Fleeting, Unexpected, Shows

  "HOLLYWOOD INSIDER: Jeff Goldblum Talks Law & Order: Criminal Intent’s New Detective and More!". Interview, eclipsemagazine.com. April 29, 2009.

• 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.

  Jeff Goldblum

  Fun, Real, Thinking

  "HOLLYWOOD INSIDER: Jeff Goldblum Talks Law & Order: Criminal Intent’s New Detective and More!". Interview, eclipsemagazine.com. April 29, 2009.

• 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.

  Jeff Goldblum

  Actors, Want, Rich

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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

  Jeff Goldblum

  Teaching, Humble, Acting

  "HOLLYWOOD INSIDER: Jeff Goldblum Talks Law & Order: Criminal Intent’s New Detective and More!". Interview with Sheldon Wiebe, eclipsemagazine.com. April, 29, 2009.

• 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.

  Jeff Goldblum

  Writing, Views, Play

  "Jeff Goldblum Discusses Law & Order: Criminal Intent". Conference call, movieweb.com. April 30, 2009.

• 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.

  Jeff Goldblum

  Thinking, People, Creative

  "HOLLYWOOD INSIDER: Jeff Goldblum Talks Law & Order: Criminal Intent’s New Detective and More!". Interview, eclipsemagazine.com. April 29, 2009.

• I like a pickled cucumber. A regular cucumber I'm not so interested in.

  Jeff Goldblum

  Cucumbers

  Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. February 27, 2014.

• 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.

  Jeff Goldblum

  School, People, Crafts

  "Jeff Goldblum Talks THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL, Being Part of Wes Anderson’s Universe, Preparing for His Role and Its Challenges, MORTDECAI, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. March 20, 2014.

• 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.

  Jeff Goldblum

  Fun, Ideas, Together

  "Jeff Goldblum Talks THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL, Being Part of Wes Anderson’s Universe, Preparing for His Role and Its Challenges, MORTDECAI, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. March 20, 2014.

• 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.

  Jeff Goldblum

  Want, Matter, Beats

  "Jeff Goldblum Talks THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL, Being Part of Wes Anderson’s Universe, Preparing for His Role and Its Challenges, MORTDECAI, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. March 20, 2014.

• I like the challenge. I like a good, meaty experience for me.

  Jeff Goldblum

  Challenges

  "Jeff Goldblum Talks THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL, Being Part of Wes Anderson’s Universe, Preparing for His Role and Its Challenges, MORTDECAI, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. March 20, 2014.

• 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.

  Jeff Goldblum

  Vision, Actors, Want

  "Jeff Goldblum Talks THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL, Being Part of Wes Anderson’s Universe, Preparing for His Role and Its Challenges, MORTDECAI, and More". Interview, collider.com. March 20, 2014.

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

  Jeff Goldblum

  Fiction, Noir, Contemporary

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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

  Jeff Goldblum

  Thinking, Television, Attention

  Source: www.movieweb.com