“I walked back and forth for a while and finally went in and picked a girl. “I’d heard about the red light district so I took five dollars from my dad’s wallet and went there,” he said. In order to afford the appointment, he stole five dollars from his father’s wallet. Virile even before he achieved fame, Goldblum told UK television host Graham Norton that he once tried to procure the company of a prostitute at the age of 13. “But the door would steam up, I didn't dare keep a diary or anything, and I'd write 'Please God, let me be an actor,' and then, before I left the shower, I would wipe it off.' After studying acting as a teen during the summer at Carnegie Mellon University, Goldblum moved to New York and got his big-screen break playing “freak number one” in 1974’s Death Wish.

“I'd write every morning, because I hadn't told anyone, even my parents or friends, that I wanted to act, it was embarrassing or something, and I knew it was too important to me to have it be anything but a secret,” Goldblum told The Guardian in 2010. To maintain his motivations, he would write affirmations on his glass shower door. Growing up in Pittsburgh-his father was a doctor, his mother a radio broadcaster-Jeff Goldblum kept his desire to be an actor hidden from others, believing he’d be ridiculed for it. HE USED TO WRITE AFFIRMATIONS IN THE SHOWER. As he celebrates his 66th birthday, today might be a good time to catch up on all things Goldblum, from his debut as a street hood in Death Wish to the reason he sometimes poops orange.

Unconventionally handsome and equipped with a famously peculiar speaking cadence, actor Jeff Goldblum has been intriguing audiences for decades.

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