Quotes from Jeff Goldblum

I love both puppies and kitties. I could just scrunch up their little faces!

I love the ocean. Boats, not so much.

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.

No matter how you travel, it's still you going.

I thought, this is a good sign. There's something perfect and right about this.

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

It's a delight to trust somebody so completely.

I love to be directed. They can trust me and go.

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.

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.

I've turned my guest house into this little studio, and we have actors come over and do readings.

It's an important fact of life, war.

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.

It's mysterious what attracts you to a person.

People work harder when conditions are worse.

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'm always interested in craft and I was interested to see how people work. For me, it's a little like lessons at school.

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

Even if I don't have a job, I work on plays and scenes.

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

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.

The original settlers of Alaska apparently were Russian.

Amazing tradition. They throw a great party for you on the one day they know you can't come.

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