00:00When I was like 10, I used to shower every morning,
00:03and we had a glass shower door, and I would write on it,
00:05please, God, let me be an actor.
00:09I was really into it.
00:10And then, because I kept it a secret, personal secret,
00:13I would wipe it off before anybody could see it.
00:15My name is Jeff, J-E-F-F, Goldblum,
00:20and these, we might call my rules for life,
00:24if I have such things.
00:25Here they come.
00:27Rule number, oh, that's French for one,
00:30keep your hygiene up, shower,
00:33keep clean for heaven's sakes, hey.
00:35But I'll tell you, my first part was in Death Wish.
00:37Charles Bronson, 1973, long before you were born,
00:40I played freak number one,
00:41is one of the three bad guys who does bad things
00:44to his wife and daughter and sends him on this
00:46for the rest of the movie, you know, vigilante.
00:48So I, misunderstanding the methody way,
00:52I didn't shower in order to play this street thug
00:58until the AD, I didn't know what an AD was,
01:01yet the assistant director came up to me
01:03after a couple of days, listen to this,
01:06and he said, Jeff, can I talk to you for a second?
01:09Yes, yes, yes, why?
01:11Jeff, you know, we're in a small space here
01:14and a lot of the crew members and other,
01:16you know, you kind of stink, you smell.
01:19Can you do something about that?
01:21Please, please go home and,
01:22I was shamed, but it was a good lesson.
01:25It was a good lesson.
01:27So now, and as we see, we're in proximity,
01:29you know, in show business, you know,
01:31or in any collaborative, you know, close, close,
01:33you know, area.
01:35Yeah, keep your, keep your hygiene up, you know.
01:37Rule number two, or dos, stay hydrated.
01:43My wife and a lot of people are chugga-luggers.
01:46By nature, they go, mm, they know it's good,
01:49and they go, mm, and they really do the whole thing.
01:51I have to concentrate to do that.
01:54You know, mm, that's really all I like to do.
01:57You know when I like water the best
01:59is during a meal, ice water, plain ice water.
02:02Ice, I like it iced, it makes it feel festive to me,
02:05and then I drink a lot of water.
02:07I remember when I was experimenting with that,
02:09excuse me if I digress, but maybe some of these
02:12are rule, rule adjacent.
02:14Oh, macrobiotic diet, I think I was experimenting with
02:18many years ago, and I think their advice was
02:21don't drink liquids as you're eating,
02:24and I've just said that that's what I most like to do,
02:26I get that ice water.
02:27So, you know, I don't know if I adhered to it
02:29for a little while, but I don't know if it's true anymore.
02:31Anyway, that's my riff on water.
02:34Let's move on to salmon.
02:36To salmon.
02:37To family.
02:38Family, I thought you said salmon,
02:39because I have a whole chunk on salmon.
02:41Okay, family.
02:43Rule number three, or drei, your kids are hilarious.
02:49I have two kids, Charlie and River,
02:50they're seven and nine now, so I became a father
02:52nine years ago, and then seven years ago.
02:55I'd never had any kids before.
02:57When we were just pregnant, and my wife Emily
02:59was just going to have the first one,
03:01somebody said, your kids are hilarious.
03:04Don't forget that they're hilarious,
03:05and I'll tell you, through times, they can be a handful,
03:08they can drive you crazy, you can get tired,
03:12but if you remember that they are funny,
03:15whatever that means, and for me, it kind of opens up
03:18another way of looking at things,
03:21how you can look at things from different ways,
03:22and things can happen to you, but proactively,
03:25the rule of life is really be proactive,
03:28which means the cards, you can get dealt all sorts of cards,
03:31but how you experience it is in your hands.
03:35That's what somebody calls proactivity.
03:37You don't have to be, et cetera, et cetera.
03:38So the kids can drive you nuts for one moment or another,
03:42or you can have all sorts of drama or challenges,
03:45as we know, but if you can keep finding the humor in it,
03:50you know, that's not a bad rule.
03:52Rule number four, cuatro, find something
03:58that, so to speak, grounds you.
04:00Today, as we sit here, this is my 10th anniversary
04:04of marriage with Emily Goldbloom,
04:07so happy anniversary, darling,
04:09and thank you for keeping me grounded.
04:12She and the boys, of course, and our dog, Woody.
04:19You know, he doesn't care that I'm in any movies, of course,
04:23and the kids don't either, you know, really,
04:26and even Emily, really, I mean, they like it,
04:29but more important things are going on with them,
04:32and kind of who I am seems to be more important,
04:35and so who I am comes to the fore,
04:38which is a grounding kind of question
04:41that always, you know, is on the surface
04:44when I'm around them.
04:46Rule number five, you know that movie Five Pennies?
04:51This little penny, his first,
04:53that's with Danny Kaye, The Five Pennies.
04:55If you're not the boss, you know,
04:57you gotta trust the boss.
04:59What does a role have to have to snag my attention?
05:03I like a good script, and I like a good part,
05:06you know, that's maybe different,
05:07and I can learn from, I'm trying to get better.
05:09I'll tell you the main box, the header box on my list
05:12would be the director.
05:13You can't be good unless the movie's good,
05:15and it's hard to make a good movie.
05:17You gotta get a good director,
05:18and maybe they've never done much before,
05:20but you can suss it out,
05:21and try to imagine what kind of director they'd be
05:25if they're new, et cetera, et cetera.
05:29I'd say get a good, get a good director.
05:32If you're not that boss, you know,
05:34you gotta trust the boss, that's true.
05:37You gotta trust the boss, and collaborate, and be open.
05:43Rule number six, use what exists, and keep growing.
05:50So I had creative shamans, and guides,
05:53and great teachers along the way,
05:56one of whom was Sanford Meisner.
05:59You students of acting, and the history of American acting
06:04may know him.
06:05He said it takes 20 years to even call yourself an actor
06:09of continual work, and after 20 years,
06:12maybe you have developed the system of an actor,
06:15and then you can live your whole rest of your life,
06:19if you keep getting chances, if you're lucky,
06:22and keep progressing.
06:24I've taken it to heart.
06:25He also said, but it bleeds over into life too,
06:28I'll tell you, he said, use what exists.
06:32Pay attention to what's going on right now,
06:38which is different than right now,
06:40and of course, the wise people will tell us
06:42that only the now exists.
06:44There's only right now, and if you use, or pay attention,
06:48and then allow yourself to be available,
06:51and enlivened by what's happening right now,
06:57something will occur, and something spontaneous will occur,
07:00and that's a magical portal into creative navigation,
07:05and it also means, I've come to realize,
07:08and I'm still realizing it more as I go on,
07:11it also means use what exists inside of you.
07:15These are all kind of learning graduate little exercises
07:20for me, where I feel I can get better,
07:21and I tell you, they've kept me interested,
07:24passionate about it, and I feel that I'm at the top
07:28of my form now, doing better work than I've done
07:31in a more relaxed way, in a freer way.
07:33Hey, thank you so, so much.
07:35I need to say to you, I'm deeply grateful
07:37for listening to this, hopefully,
07:40maybe you've taken something away from this.
07:43If you have, I deeply appreciate it, thank you.
07:47I have a lot of rules about salmon.
07:49Medium rare, medium rare, you can dry it out, don't do it.
07:52Sustainable, wild is better.
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