Geoffrey Rush quotes

Geoffrey Rush is an acclaimed Australian actor known for his versatility on stage and screen. His performances have earned him numerous awards, including an Academy Award for Best Actor. He continues to be celebrated for his contributions to cinema and theatre worldwide. Here are 36 of his quotes:

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

Geoffrey Rush

Within our culture, every school has a swimming pool. We lived on the coast. People swam in the surf. It's a very sporty nation and at that particular time anyone who had an artistic bent was very much an outsider. So if you liked reading or ideas or playing the piano then your dad viewed you as a sissy, basically.

Geoffrey Rush

You had to be into sport and, sad to say, I'm a traitor to my country because I don't have a sporting bone in my body.

Geoffrey Rush

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

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

Geoffrey Rush

Yes, anally retentive men are my forte!

Geoffrey Rush

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

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

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.

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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.

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What I appreciated was the fact that the script delved into how Australians were - and still are - condescended to by the English.

Geoffrey Rush

There's four biggies. There was Elizabeth I, George III, Victoria, and the current queen, who really dominated four eras.

Geoffrey Rush

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

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

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

But there is a scary side to acting for me, because I have always wanted to develop rather than plateau out. 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

Sometimes you do feel a script that glows in your hand the moment you start reading it. By page four of Shakespeare in Love, I said, 'I have to be in this movie.'

Geoffrey Rush

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

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

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

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

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