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ACTING

"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 


Jeff Goldblum: I've been lucky. And thank goodness the (sci-fi films) I've done have been good movies. I feel like some kind of lucky star has, for now, shone on me. 

THE ADVENTURES OF BUCKAROO BANZAI ACROSS THE 8TH DIMENSION

"How many zeros is that?"

"Why is there a watermelon there?"

THE FLY

Seth Brundle: You have to leave now, and never come back here. Have you ever heard of insect politics? Neither have I. Insects... don't have politics. They're very... brutal. No compassion, no compromise. We can't trust the insect. I'd like to become the first... insect politician. Y'see, I'd like to, but... I'm afraid, uh...
Ronnie: I don't know what you're trying to say.
Seth Brundle: I'm saying... I'm saying I - I'm an insect who dreamt he was a man and loved it. But now the dream is over... and the insect is awake.
Ronnie: No. no, Seth...
Seth Brundle: I'm saying... I'll hurt you if you stay.

Seth Brundle: I was not pure. The teleporter insists on inner pure. I was not pure.
Ronnie: I don't know what you mean.
Seth Brundle: A fly... got into the... transmitter pod with me that first time, when I was alone. The computer... got confused - there weren't supposed to be two separate genetic patterns - and it decided to... uhh... splice us together. It mated us, me and the fly. We hadn't even been properly introduced.

JURASSIC PARK

"God help us, we're in the hands of engineers." - Jeff Goldblum as Dr. Ian Malcom (Jurassic Park)

"God creates dinosaurs. God destroys dinosaurs. God creates Man. Man destroys God. Man creates Dinosaurs-" - Jeff Goldblum as Dr. Ian Malcom (Jurassic Park)

"What you call discovery I call rape of the natural world." - Jeff Goldblum as Dr. Ian Malcom (Jurassic Park)

"Must go faster."  - Jeff Goldblum as Dr. Ian Malcom (Jurassic Park)

"When you gotta go, ya gotta go."  - Jeff Goldblum as Dr. Ian Malcom (Jurassic Park)

"I’ll tell you the problem with the scientific power that you’re using here: it didn’t require any discipline to attain it. You read what others had done and you took the next step. You didn’t earn the knowledge for yourselves, so you don’t take any responsibility for it. You stood on the shoulders of geniuses to accomplish something as fast as you could and before you even knew what you had you patented it and packaged it and slapped it on a plastic lunchbox, and now you’re selling it, you want to sell it!" - Jeff Goldblum as Dr. Ian Malcolm (Jurassic Park)

“Yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.” - Jeff Goldblum as Dr. Ian Malcolm (Jurassic Park)

“The lack of humility before nature that’s being displayed here, uh… staggers me.” - Jeff Goldblum as Dr. Ian Malcolm (Jurassic Park)

THE LOST WORLD

"It's fine if you wanna put your name on some things but STOP putting it on other people's headstones."  - Jeff Goldblum as Dr. Ian Malcom (The Lost World) 

"Oohh, Aahh, that's how all of this starts, but then later there's the running and screaming."   - Jeff Goldblum as Dr. Ian Malcom (The Lost World)

"Where you're going is the only place on earth where the geese chase you!"   - Jeff Goldblum as Dr. Ian Malcom (The Lost World)

"Why doesn't anyone listen to me? I speak simple English, I don't have an accent as far as I can tell."   - Jeff Goldblum as Dr. Ian Malcom (The Lost World)

"Don't worry, I'm not making the same mistakes again." - Hammond
"No, you're making all new ones."  - Jeff Goldblum as Dr. Ian Malcom (The Lost World)

"It's so important to your future that you not finish that sentence."  - Jeff Goldblum as Dr. Ian Malcom (The Lost World)

MR. FROST

"I'm the ga ga man. Boo." - Jeff Goldblum as Mr. Frost

"'Cause I'm Chaos. It's my destiny to destroy." - Jeff Goldblum as Mr. Frost

"Soon you'll be on my side of the mirror." - Jeff Goldblum as Mr. Frost

"You believed in me and now I know that nothing and no one will ever resist me." - Jeff Goldblum as Mr. Frost

"I'm more powerful than all your knowledge, stronger than all your pretty phrases. I am strong. (Stronger than passing time.)" - Jeff Goldblum as Mr. Frost

PERSONAL

Jeff Goldblum: (on his relationship with ex-wife Geena Davis) We are good friends and she's a wonderful person and a wonderful actress.

OTHER

"It's best not to stare at the sun during an eclipse." - Jeff Goldblum 

"It's mysterious what attracts you to a person." - Jeff Goldblum 

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