Top 50 Jeff Goldblum Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “No. I’m simply saying that life, uh, finds a way.”

— Jeff Goldblum

2. “Oh yeah, oohing and ahhing, that’s how it always starts, but later there’s the running and screaming.”

— Jeff Goldblum

3. “God help us, we’re in the hands of engineers.”

— Jeff Goldblum

Featured in: Programming Quotes

4. “It’s best not to stare at the sun during an eclipse.”

— Jeff Goldblum

5. “Yeah but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could they didn’t stop to think if they should.”

— Jeff Goldblum

6. “I like a pickled cucumber. A regular cucumber I’m not so interested in.”

— Jeff Goldblum

7. “He was a great man. And he was also me.”

— Jeff Goldblum

8. “People work harder when conditions are worse.”

— Jeff Goldblum

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

— Jeff Goldblum

10. “I love the ocean. Boats, not so much.”

— Jeff Goldblum

11. “I, uh, don’t think I’m, y’know, so different than your average, y’know, average.”

— Jeff Goldblum

12. “No matter how you travel, it’s still you going.”

— Jeff Goldblum

13. “I’m a humble student of acting myself and part of that studentship is teaching.”

— Jeff Goldblum

14. “Hawaii can be heaven and it can be hell.”

— Jeff Goldblum

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

— Jeff Goldblum

16. “No pay, no Goldblum. That’s it.”

— Jeff Goldblum

17. “I don’t go to these places where there are belly dancers and this and that.”

— Jeff Goldblum

18. “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.”

— Jeff Goldblum

19. “My life has been transformed by great teachers all the way...”

— Jeff Goldblum

20. “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

21. “Amazing tradition. They throw a great party for you on the one day they know you can’t come.”

— Jeff Goldblum

22. “There is a fine line between passion and gas.”

— Jeff Goldblum

23. “It’s mysterious what attracts you to a person.”

— Jeff Goldblum

24. “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.”

— Jeff Goldblum

25. “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.”

— Jeff Goldblum

26. “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

27. “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.”

— Jeff Goldblum

28. “It’s a delight to trust somebody so completely.”

— Jeff Goldblum

29. “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

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

— Jeff Goldblum

31. “The universe is so big, there’s so many worlds, there must be one of them or more, something that’s alive.”

— Jeff Goldblum

32. “It’s an important fact of life, war.”

— Jeff Goldblum

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

— Jeff Goldblum

34. “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

Featured in: Fun Quotes

35. “Even if I don’t have a job, I work on plays and scenes.”

— Jeff Goldblum

36. “I think we’re dealing with a realm of human experience that doesn’t get all that much attention on television.”

— Jeff Goldblum

37. “Sometimes I think that people’s characters get forged, at least in part, from their names.”

— Jeff Goldblum

38. “Well, of course I would choose to be the top scientist in my field.”

— Jeff Goldblum

39. “How can you say when you’re attracted to something? It’s not easy to articulate my tastes.”

— Jeff Goldblum

40. “Going back to the noir fiction of the 30s, 40s and 50s. It’s very contemporary.”

— Jeff Goldblum

41. “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

42. “It’s nice to play a character that has a soulful, dependent, close relationship. It must mean my character is interesting in some way.”

— Jeff Goldblum

43. “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

44. “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.”

— Jeff Goldblum

45. “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

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

— Jeff Goldblum

47. “At the end of the movie all of us have this shared redemption.”

— Jeff Goldblum

48. “The original settlers of Alaska apparently were Russian.”

— Jeff Goldblum

49. “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

50. “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

Featured in: Fun Quotes