10 Most Iconic Jeff Goldblum Movie Quotes

There are few entertainers who can compare with the delightfully unique charm of Jeff Goldblum. Active in the industry since 1974, Jeff is a talented actor, a respected jazz musician, and he has retained his status as a sex symbol well into his 60’s.

Beloved classics and their sequels, like Jurassic Park and Independence Day, would be nothing without his charisma and timeless movie quotes in his signature stuttered cadence. There are so many incredible Goldblum-isms that it’s hard to choose which ones are the best. Let’s take a look at a list of 10 quotes from some of Mr. Goldblum’s most iconic movie moments.

10 “Life Finds A Way.” (Jurassic Park)

“I’m simply saying that life, uh… finds a way,” from Jurassic Park is easily one of Jeff Goldblum’s most memorable quotes. Ever the skeptic, Dr. Ian Malcolm (Goldblum) is not afraid to let his feelings be known after he is assured that the dinosaurs cannot breed on their own in the park, and he goes off on a flustered rant about life.

Ian may have more swagger and a better sense of style than your average mathematician, but he also knows what he’s talking about.

9 “What Am I Working On?” (The Fly)

“What am I working on? Uhh… I’m working on something that will change the world, and human life as we know it.” This is the intriguing opening line to the 1986 remake of the science fiction horror flick, The Fly.

Seth Brundle (Goldblum) is an ambitious but socially awkward scientist who is eager to change the world with his new invention of a teleportation machine. He uses tidbits of information like this quote to coax the interest of a beautiful woman, without realizing that she is, in fact, a reporter who wants to do a story on his work.

8 “Nice To Meet You, Mr. Dude.” (Earth Girls Are Easy)

The full quote is, “Hi! I’m Mac. Nice to meet you, Mr. Dude.” And proceeds with “Dr. Dude,” causing Mac to correct himself with, “Oh! Dr. Dude!”

Jeff Goldblum plays a fuzzy alien named Mac in this sci-fi rom-com. Mac comes to earth with some of his alien friends to meet some hot Earth girls. He doesn’t speak English, so Goldblum actually has very little dialogue, but fortunately for him, that doesn’t seem to hurt his chances with the ladies. Most of the lines he does have involve him hilariously bungling Earth customs and the English language.

7 “He Wasn’t The President Yet!” (Independence Day)

Jeff Goldblum has been making geeks sexy since, well, forever, probably, but definitely since Independence Day. This amusing back and forth takes place between David Levinson (Goldblum) and his father, while awkwardly awaiting a meeting with the President.

David admits he once punched him in the face because he thought he was having an affair with his wife, but it so doesn’t count since he wasn’t actually the President yet. Fair enough, Levinson.

6 “God Creates Dinosaurs…” (Jurassic Park)

The first Jurassic Park is full of quotable gems like, “God creates dinosaurs, God destroys dinosaurs. God creates Man, man destroys God. Man creates dinosaurs.” Ian Malcolm spends much of the movie either flirting with Dr. Ellie Sattler, being pretentious, or flirting with Ellie while being pretentious.

Ellie flips the script on him by playfully adding on to his intellectual musings about the creation of the park. The best part of this scene is the concerned look on Ian’s face, while Alan just chuckles to himself next to them.

5 “Why Are You Handing Me The Melt Stick? He Was Interrupting. That’s Not A Capital Violation.” (Thor: Ragnarok)

The Grandmaster is pretty fond of melting people that “displease him,” which basically means he melts them for pretty much anything. He even melts his cousin, Carlo.

Fortunately for Loki, the Grandmaster has a real soft spot for him and acts shocked by Topaz’s suggestion. Almost everything that The Grandmaster says in Thor: Ragnarok is worthy of this list, but this one makes the cut for Goldblum’s hysterical delivery.

4 “Help Me. Help Me Be Human.” (The Fly)

The Fly has a ton of great quotes and chilling visuals to make the audience do as Geena Davis warns and “Be afraid. Be very afraid.” The “Help me be human,” line occurs at the climax of the movie after a grotesque-looking Seth Brundle has maimed Veronica’s creepy ex-boyfriend.

She stops him before he kills him, only for him to crawl up the wall and beg her to “help [him] be human” by combining their DNA in his teleportation machine.

3 “When Did God Start Caring About Any Of Us?” (Prince Of Egypt)

Steven Spielberg’s retelling of this Old Testament Bible story is a gorgeous animated film that is highly underrated. Jeff Goldblum plays the small but poignant role of Moses’s brother, Aaron.

He is bitter and angry with Moses for only bothering to help his people after so many years of living as their master, and he expresses his anger in this quote: “God? When did God start caring about any of us? In fact, Moses, when did you start caring about slaves? Was it when you found out that you were one of us?” Aaron’s anger then dissolves into years of pain and strikes just as much of a chord in the audience as it does in Moses.

2 “Did He Just Throw My Cat Out Of The Window?” (The Grand Budapest Hotel)

Wes Anderson’s colorful comedy The Grand Budapest Hotel is full of quirky characters and surprisingly funny scenes. One of these occurs when a conversation between Goldblum’s Deputy Kovacs and a spoiled heir named Dmitri does not go well.

One of his men retaliates by nonchalantly tossing the Deputy’s cat out of the window, leaving a baffled and concerned Deputy Kovacs to process what just happened.

1 “Must Go Faster.” (Jurassic Park & Independence Day)

The line is first uttered by Ian Malcolm in Jurassic Park when their jeep is being chased by an enraged t-rex. The catchy line and the image of the dinosaur in the rearview mirror got so popular, that Goldblum recycled it to use in another action blockbuster Independence Day.

He says for the second time near the end of the film when he and Will Smith are flying for their lives to escape the alien ship.

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