Geoffrey Rush Quotes

• 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

  Topics in Children

  Tags in School, Familiar

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Fortunate, Film, Career

• 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

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Young, Adults

• 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

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Shakespeare

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Leading, Man, Actor

• 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

  Topics in Business

  Tags in Self, Wrong

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Britain, Greatest, Comic, Actor

• 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

  Topics in Education

  Tags in People, Thinking

• I didn’t know the Green Lantern comics at all. I was a Superman reader.

  Geoffrey Rush

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Superhero, Comics

• 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

  Topics in Country

  Tags in King, Abdication

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self -Love, Dictionary

• I die in almost every film I’ve been in.

  Geoffrey Rush

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Film

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

  Geoffrey Rush

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Feeling, Thrilled

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

  Geoffrey Rush

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Fantasy, Chef

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Insect

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Elizabeth, Voice

• They were saying, ‘Keep this under your hat, but Jack Sparrow’s going to die in the second movie.’ I went, ‘You’re kidding me. The fans are going to go berserk.’

  Geoffrey Rush

  Topics in Movies

  Tags in Fictional, Actor

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

  Geoffrey Rush

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Countries, Queens

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

  Geoffrey Rush

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Intrigued, Great, Personalities

• Someone told me that there’s a connection to Superman, that in an early edition of the Green Lantern comics, Tomar Re was the envoy to Krypton. That was fascinating to me.

  Geoffrey Rush

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Superman, Edition, Comics

Geoffrey Rush (31)

Birth:	6th July, 1951
Nationality:	Australian
Profession:	Actor, Producer

About

Geoffrey Roy Rush is an Australian actor and film producer. He is one of the few people who have won the "Triple Crown of Acting": an Academy Award, a Tony Award and an Emmy Award. He has won one Academy Award for acting, three British Academy Film Awards, two Golden Globe Awards and four Screen Actors Guild Awards. He is the founding President of the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts and was named the 2012 Australian of the Year.

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Births

• 1948 - Natan Sharansky
• 1951 - Shelley Berkley
• 1944 - Nancy Chodorow
• 1959 - R. A. Salvatore
• 1967 - Stacey Dash

Deaths

• 1962 - Robinson Jeffers
• 1867 - Nathaniel Parker Willis
• 1936 - King George V
• 1990 - Barbara Stanwyck
• 2011 - Reynolds Price