Jeff GoldblumQuotes

Jeff Goldblum
Birthday
October 22nd, 1952
From
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Actor

Transylvania 6-5000 - Unexpected Fragrance in a Mysterious Room

Gil Turner: Do you smell perfume?
Jack Harrison: Yes. I know what was in this room.
Gil: What?
Jack: The Creature from Estee Lauder.

Transylvania 6-5000 - Journalistic Standards and Vocabulary Expectations

Jack Harrison: Look, didn't you hire me to raise the journalistic level of this paper?
Mac Turner: [points to Gil] Wrong! I hired you to raise the vocabulary level of this paper. I want to keep the journalistic level very low. Why do you think I teamed you up with him?
Gil Turner: Hey, I'm a team player.

Earth Girls Are Easy - Defining "Easy" in Earth Girls Are Easy

Valerie: I didn't want you to think Earth girls were easy.
Mac: What is "easy"?
Valerie: [kissing him] This is "easy".

Earth Girls Are Easy - Hospital Plans and Manipulative Strategies

Mac: Joe, take us to hospital, please.
Joe: Hey, clown, you're going to the slammer!
Mac: [looks at Mike, then at Valerie] We go to slammer first.
Valerie: [to Mac] Listen, give them that love touch, then they'll come on to me. They'll be putty in my hands.
Mac: You want sex with Joe and Mike?
Valerie: No, no, just so we can get away. Do it, do it! You'll see.

Earth Girls Are Easy - A Confused Conversation About Intimacy

Valerie: Wait a minute. Are you like coming on to me? Is this a pass? Because, I mean, if it is, sex is like totally out of the question.
Mac: What is sex?
Valerie: Sex? You know, making love. A man and a woman like each other and they take their clothes off and...
Mac: Okay.
Valerie: [looks at naked Mac's groin] Well, no! No, no, no! We can't, no, because, I mean, me and Ted are, uh, are, uh, well, I guess we're not, but, I mean, uh, we can't because, I mean, you're an alien and I'm from the valley and we may not even be, you know, anatomically correct for each other. That could be - a real problem. No problem. But, I mean, uh, no, no, no. I mean, it just wouldn't work! You're from out of town. The phone bills would just be hell.

Powder - Understanding Humanity's Future Through Difference

Donald Ripley: [[Darkness|dark; [kill; [mind; [evolve; [future; [now] We're stumbling around in a very ] age basically trying not to ] each other. So it hurts me when you say "So what?" Because you are not just different, Jeremy, I think you have a ] that we won't ] to for like thousands of years — you're maybe the man of the ] right here and ].

Powder - Unexplained Phenomenon in the Classroom

Donald Ripley: [[science; [human; [electricity; [w:Spark gap#Visual entertainment|Jacob's Ladder] Something's happened here. Something's happened here. I'm telling you, with everything we know, about ], about the makeup of the ] body, what happened in that classroom is impossible. That kid attracted an arc of ] from thirty feet away, and not just from the ], I mean, after a second it was like it was coming out of the whole… building.

Powder - The Nature of Connection and Communication

Donald Ripley: [[Energy; [transforming; [Eternity|never-ending] ], always relaying, always ], and ].

The Big Chill - Commitment to Staying Together

Michael Gold: You see, Sarah, Harold, we took a secret vote. We're not leaving. We're never leaving.

The Big Chill - Irony of Absence in Celebration

Michael Gold: [about the wake] Amazing tradition. They throw a great party for you on the one day they know you can't come.

Invasion of the Body Snatchers - Challenge to the Invaders

Jack Bellicec: Here I am, you pod bastards! Hey, pods! Come and get me, you scum!

Invasion of the Body Snatchers - Changing the World to Fit People

Jack Bellicec: The rest of the world is trying to change people for to fit the world. I'm trying to change the world to fit people.

Independence Day: Resurgence - Survivor's Warning About Alien Conquest

David Levinson: Why are you here?
Sphere AI: When I intercepted their distress call, I knew they would come to exterminate you. I came to evacuate as many of you as possible. But you attacked me with the same weapons that they used on us.
Levinson: They attacked you?
Sphere AI: [shows hologram of a Harvester ship and a planet] Correct. A harvester ship conquered our planet and extracted it's molten core. They used them to refuel their ships and grow their technology. They've done this to countless civilizations. We fought them for thousands of years. But they destroyed all of our ships. I, am the sole survivor.
Dr Brackish Okun: I am so sorry to hear that. Do you have a plan?
Sphere AI: My system holds the key to superior technology. And there is a hidden planet where I teach refugees from other fallen worlds how to build weapons that will defeat them once and for all.
Dr Catherine Marceaux: That's why they're afraid of you. You're the only ones who threaten their existence.
Sphere AI: Correct. But now that I'm activated, the queen will detect my signature and hunt me down.
Dikembe Umbuntu: It's too late. She's already on her way.
Thomas Whitmore: Yeah. She's coming.
Levinson: And what would happen if, if we're able to kill her?
Sphere AI: No one has ever killed a harvester queen.
Okun: That's encouraging.
Sphere AI: But as a hive, her fighters will fall and her ship will leave your planet, recalled by other harvester queens. But it's too late now. You must terminate me or she will get the coordinates to the refugee planet. And that will be the end.

Independence Day: Resurgence - Unity and Resolve in the Face of Adversity

David Levinson: I've had years to get us ready. We never had a chance.
President Whitmore: We didn't last time, either. We always knew they were coming back. But look how far we've come. In the last 20 years, this planet has been unified in a way that's unprecedented in human history. That's sacred. That's worth fighting for. We convinced an entire generation that this is a battle we could win. And they believed us. We can't let them down. It wasn't luck last time. It was our resolve. We all have to fight till our last breath. And that is going to lead us to victory.

Independence Day: Resurgence - Investigating the Wreckage After the Attack

General Lao Jiang: It crashed into Van de Graaff crater. We are not picking up any signs of life.
US President Elizabeth Lanford: Let's hope to God we did the right thing.
David Levinson: Madam President, we need to send a team up to investigate the wreckage. We need to know who we just shot down.
Reese Tanner: [to Lanford] There's no sign of life and the threat has been neutralized. We can send a team up, but David needs to be in DC.
Levinson: No, oh. Can we not make this political. I need to get up there and get answers.
Lanford: David, you can lead a team up there, but after the celebration.

Independence Day: Resurgence - Comparison of Size in Alien Threat

David Levinson: That's... definitely bigger than the last one.

The Lost World: Jurassic Park - The Dangers of Powerful Neurotoxins

Eddie Carr: I loaded the enhanced venom of Conus purpurascens, the South Sea cone shell. Most powerful neurotoxin in the world. Acts within a two-thousandth of a second. Faster than the nerve-conduction velocity. The animal's down before it feels the prick of the dart.
Ian Malcolm: Is there an antidote?
Eddie Carr: What, like if you shot yourself in the foot? Don't do that. You'd be dead before you realized you'd had an accident.

The Lost World: Jurassic Park - Critique of Modern Entertainment Preferences

Kelly Malcolm: She doesn't even have Sega. She's such a troglodyte.
Ian Malcolm: Cruel, but good word use.

The Lost World: Jurassic Park - Motivations Behind Environmental Activism

Ian Malcolm: What's your background? Wildlife photography?
Nick Van Owen: [[Rwanda] Yeah, wildlife, combat, you name it. When I was with Nightline, I was in ], Chechnya, all over Bosnia. Do some volunteer work for Greenpeace once in a while.
Ian Malcolm: Greenpeace? What drew you there?
Nick Van Owen: [grinning] Women. Eighty percent female, Greenpeace.
Ian Malcolm: That's noble.
Nick Van Owen: Yeah, well, "noble" was last year. This year I'm getting paid. Hammond's check cleared, or I wouldn't be going on this wild goose chase.
Ian Malcolm: Uh, where you're going is the only place in the world where the geese chase you!

The Lost World: Jurassic Park - New Mistakes in Jurassic Park's Legacy

John Hammond: Don't worry. I'm not making the same mistakes again.
Ian Malcolm: No, you're making all new ones.

The Lost World: Jurassic Park - Corporate Responsibility and Personal Accountability

Peter Ludlow: InGen is my responsibility now, Doctor, I will jealously defend its interests.
Ian Malcolm: Your responsibility, what about Mr. Hammond?
Peter Ludlow: It is our board of directors whom I must look in the eye, not my uncle. Really, you must trust me, your problems are about to be rendered moot. In a few weeks time, they'll be long forgotten.
Ian Malcolm: [grabbing Ludlow's arm] Not by me.
Peter Ludlow: Careful. This suit cost more than your education.

The Lost World: Jurassic Park - Consequences of Parental Recognition in Nature

Ian Malcolm: Hey, when the adult sees us once again with his baby, uh, isn't he gonna be like, "You!"? You know, there may be some, uh, angry recognition.

The Lost World: Jurassic Park - A Mother's Anger is Unleashed

Ian Malcolm: [after hearing the adult ''T. rex'' roar for its missing child] Mommy's very angry.

The Lost World: Jurassic Park - Identity Shift in Jurassic Park Narrative

Ian Malcolm: [to Ludlow, as the ''T. rex'' terrorizes San Diego] Now you're John Hammond.

The Lost World: Jurassic Park - The Cycle of Excitement and Fear

Ian Malcolm: Yeah. "Ooh, ah," that's how it always starts. But then later there's running and screaming.

The Lost World: Jurassic Park - Preserving Legacy Without Endangering Others

Ian Malcolm: [to Hammond] If you want to leave your name on something, fine. But stop putting it on other people's headstones.

The Lost World: Jurassic Park - Transformation from Capitalist to Naturalist

Ian Malcolm: [to Hammond] So you went from capitalist to naturalist in just four years. That's something.

The Fly - Embracing Change and Loss of Relevance

Seth Brundle: [Adding his teeth to a collection of lost body parts; Notices Veronica] You're relics. Yes, you are. Vestigial, archaeological, redundant. Artifacts of a bygone era. Of historical interest only. You've missed some good moments. Is that why you're here? To catch up? My teeth have begun to fall out. The medicine cabinet is now the Brundle Museum of Natural History. You wanna see what else is in it?

The Fly - The Transformation of Brundlefly's Eating Habits

Seth Brundle: [Being filmed by Veronica] How does Brundlefly eat? Well, he found out, the hard and painful way, that he eats very much the way a fly eats. His teeth are now useless, because although he can chew up solid foods, he can't digest them. Solid food hurts. So like a fly, Brundlefly breaks down solids with a corrosive enzyme, playfully called "vomit drop". He regurgitates on his food, it liquefies, and then he sucks it back up. Ready for a demonstration, kids? Here goes...

The Fly - Transformation through Unintended Consequences

Seth Brundle: [To Veronica; Smiles] I was not pure. The teleporter insists on inner purity; I was not pure. 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, erm...splice us together. It mated us, me and the fly. We hadn't even been properly introduced. My...teleporter turned into a gene-splicer. And a very good one. Now I'm not Seth Brundle anymore. I'm the offspring of...Brundle and housefly.

The Fly - Exploring Fear and Transformation Beyond the Flesh

Seth Brundle: [To Veronica; [w:Pierian Spring|Drink deep or taste not the plasma spring] You're afraid to dive into the plasma pool, aren't you? You're afraid to be destroyed and recreated, aren't you? I'll bet you think that you woke me up about the flesh, don't you? But you only know society's straight line about the flesh. You can't penetrate beyond society's sick, gray fear of the flesh! ], see what I'm saying? And I'm not just talking about sex and penetration, I'm talking about penetration beyond the veil of the flesh! A deep, penetrating dive into the plasma pool!

The Fly - The Empowering Illusion of Teleportation

Seth Brundle: [To Veronica] I will say now, however subjectively, that human teleportation, molecular decimation, breakdown and reformation is inherently purging. It makes a man a king. From the moment I walked out of the pod, I felt like a million bucks... I mean, what an accomplishment! But what have I really done? All I've done is say to the world: "Let's go! Move! Catch me if you can!

The Fly - Confusion and Jealousy in Relationships

Seth Brundle: [Talking to his surviving baboon, while drinking; As the baboon swats at a fly] Residue" means old boyfriend, doesn't it? Stathis Borans is her old boyfriend. "From the desk of Stathis Borans" - how about "Under the desk of Stathis Borans"? She's working for her old boyfriend. Now she runs out late at night to see him. What is this, the Ronnie game?! I'm catching on, I'm catching on... I didn't mean to kill your brother. But he didn't die in vain, if that's of any comfort. And, as the General said, "There's nothing I'd ask you to do that I wouldn't do myself, boys." ...Hey, you're all right. From looking at you, I can tell you're okay. What are we waiting for? Let's do it.

Wicked - Creating Unity Through Common Adversaries

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: When I first got here, well, there was discord. There was discontent. And back where I come from, everybody knows that the best way to bring folks together is to give them a real good enemy.

Wicked: For Good - Confrontation of Morality and Desire

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: [after Elphaba stumbles across a voiceless Dr. Dillamond and several other Animals trapped in cages] I'm not a bad man, I...
Elphaba Thropp: Yes, you are. You're a very bad man. You once asked me what my heart's desire was. And now I know what it is. It is to fight you until the day I die!

Wicked: For Good - Proof of the Wicked Witch's Demise

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: [to Dorothy, Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Cowardly Lion] Bring me the broomstick of the Wicked Witch of the West, so I have proof that she's dead.

Wicked: For Good - Perception of Truth in History

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: You see, back where I come from, we got a whole lot of people who believe all sorts of things that aren't true. You know what we call it? History.