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 GoldblumAnybody 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 GoldblumThis was one of the places people told me to go, it was one the big trips that you should see: Alaska.
Jeff GoldblumIn 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 GoldblumInvolve 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