Geoffrey Rush Quotes

I always had a fantasy of being a chef, because I like kitchen life.
Geoffrey Rush

Life, Chef, Fantasy

I do love perusing the dictionary to find how many words I don't use - words that have specific, sharp, focused meaning. I also love the sound of certain words. I love the sound of the word pom-pom.
Geoffrey Rush

Love, Words, Find

People are intrigued and fascinated, almost obsessed with the private lives of great public personalities.
Geoffrey Rush

Great, Lives, Public

This is what happens when you are on the wrong side of 40. Young adults, who could be your children, are now working with you. I was playing their parents or mentor. I started to think: Oh, I am not part of that group any more.
Geoffrey Rush

Children, Parents, Working

When people come to me and tell me I was terrific in this or that, I do not want to fall flat on my face the next time. But, tough, I have fallen flat before. You just get up and dust yourself off.
Geoffrey Rush

Time, Yourself, Before

But as my voice coach keeps saying, if we actually spoke the way they imagine the Elizabethan voice might have been, we wouldn't be able to understand it.
Geoffrey Rush

Saying, Understand, Able

I always felt thrilled and amazed that I could put actor on my tax form.
Geoffrey Rush

Put, Actor, Felt

I asked, 'What is this guy?' They said, he's part-fish, part-bird, maybe a bit of lizard, and you don't have to go through five hours of makeup to play him. That was good enough for me.
Geoffrey Rush

Good, Him, Through

I did not want to put myself on the line, as an Australian playing Britain's greatest comic actor. The fans of Sellers are obsessive, possessive - and aggressive. I did not want to risk their anger - or my own reputation.
Geoffrey Rush

Anger, Greatest, Put

I didn't know the Green Lantern comics at all. I was a Superman reader.
Geoffrey Rush

Green, Superman, Reader

I die in almost every film I've been in.
Geoffrey Rush

Die, Film, Almost

I guess I've been fortunate in having an ongoing film career while being based in Melbourne. I'm happy to commute. A day on a plane. Come on. It's easy.
Geoffrey Rush

Happy, Career, Easy

I knew all about Edward VIII's abdication, George VI becoming the king and having a stammer, but nothing about how he got rid of it.
Geoffrey Rush

Nothing, Knew, King

I like roles that are on the extreme ends of the spectrum, and there's special appeal in exploring these slightly forgotten plays that people might think of as subjects for academic term papers instead of live theater.
Geoffrey Rush

Live, Special, Might

I often thought I was in the wrong business. I was pretty seriously thinking of tossing it in before I shot Shine. I do not know why. I was pretty restless, I had been through a bad period of stress induced anxiety - panic attacks - and I was not sure of what I wanted to do.
Geoffrey Rush

Business, Bad, Stress

I think that Ionesco's greatest weapon is that he's able to make us laugh at the darkest corners of our souls.
Geoffrey Rush

Greatest, Laugh, Able

I was never a leading man. I've always been in the outer concentric circles in the company, being a character actor, which is a good place to be. It gives you that diversity.
Geoffrey Rush

Good, Character, Place

I went to England in the '70s, and I was in my early 20s. There was still a residue of that era of being an underclass or colonial. I assume it must have been a more aggressive and prominent attitude 40 years before that, because Australia internationally wasn't regarded as having much cultural value. We were a country full of sheep and convicts.
Geoffrey Rush

Attitude, Country, Before

I wouldn't mind meeting some of the people I've attempted to portray from the olden, olden days. They probably would all have really terrible skin and horrible bad breath, and I'd have to give them an Altoid.
Geoffrey Rush

Mind, Bad, Give

It's their story, and I got to be the guy in the back while they were in the foreground.
Geoffrey Rush

While, Story, Guy

Most films I've worked on have had large casts, but they've been wonderful people. I think the monkey in Pirates of the Caribbean is the most temperamental costar I've had. It would throw tantrums like you wouldn't believe.
Geoffrey Rush

Wonderful, Worked, Films

My eye muscles hurt now when I read our MasterCard bill.
Geoffrey Rush

Hurt, Read, Eye

My kids started school, so having a strong base in Melbourne has been a key priority. I'm not daunted by the travel. People say, 'It's so far to Australia,' and I say, 'You get on the plane, you eat well, you sleep, you wake up - and you're there.'
Geoffrey Rush

Travel, School, Strong

Nobody ever said that growing old would be easy. Just having to hold the newspaper out in your forties and then hair growing out of unusual parts of your body in your fifties. It's tough on the ego.
Geoffrey Rush

Ego, Tough, Old

People tend to think of Brisbane as a sleepy, sub-topical place. I don't know. It's like Baltimore or something. I don't know. You would hear the family dramas going on behind closed doors.
Geoffrey Rush

Family, Place, Behind

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Biography

Nationality: Australian

Type: Actor

Born: July 6, 1951

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