Rachel Griffiths Quotes

• You know Texas is – even more now that Enron has bit the dust – it’s held up on the back of small businesses.

  Rachel Griffiths

  Topics in Business

  Tags in Held

• Why movies are so powerful is because you are right in there and you stay in there until they want you to come out, and then you’ve really gone somewhere.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Movie, Powerful

• We’ve got our football where no one wears anything and the guys are in little shorts and they beat the crap out of each other, and they can catch it and they can kick it, and it’s the only place it’s played in the world.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Football, Kick, Played, World

• We grew up as kids watching those movies and we were exposed to themes of civil rights, unfairness, bigotry and fathers struggling against the kind of mob of the town, so you remember how you felt as a kid being taken seriously, that you are part of the human drama.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Movie, Remember, Seriously

• There’s nothing as exciting as a comeback – seeing someone with dreams, watching them fail, and then getting a second chance.

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  Topics in Dream

  Tags in Chance, Fail

• The filmmaker’s got to make it his story and the actors have got to make it their story.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Filmmaker, Story

• People going into the cities for the opportunities and the towns are getting older, no young people.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Opportunities

• It was a lovely opportunity for the first time in my whole career to stand up and thank people who are really responsible for me getting to realize my dreams.

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  Topics in Dream, Opportunity

  Tags in Responsible

• I’m so motivated to collaborate with people and help them realize the kind of collective vision.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Motivated, Collective

• I’m quite intuitive about what I pick. Often it’s to do with what I’ve just done and how I’m feeling.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Intuitive, Feeling

• I’m pretty ruthless about that; I think when you sign over your story, you sign over your story.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ruthless, Sign, Story

• I’m developing some screenplays at the moment with my Australian producer.

  Rachel Griffiths

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Developing, Screenplays

• I think family movies have gotten so rich in this country.

  Rachel Griffiths

  Topics in Family, Movies

• I think baseball – the baseball genre – is this mitt, to use a double pun there, to catch a whole bunch of themes.

  Rachel Griffiths

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Baseball, Bunch

• I think a big part of our attraction to sport movies are the stories contained within the sports.

  Rachel Griffiths

  Topics in Movies

  Tags in Attraction, Sport

• I just don’t see where I could possibly fit in directing a feature.

  Rachel Griffiths

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Fit, Feature

• I grew up on cricket and I think Australian kids are getting so Americanized, you know?

  Rachel Griffiths

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Grew, Cricket

• I found it an interesting portrait of a marriage in exploring notions of how one partner supports the other, whilst not jeopardizing the greater good – which is the family.

  Rachel Griffiths

  Topics in Family

  Tags in Marriage, Interesting

• But just playing the partner of someone famous, I had a lot more freedom.

  Rachel Griffiths

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Playing, Famous, Freedom

• And I grew up watching all the British ones so when you hear that from an early age, it makes it much easier than you guys who don’t grow up with Australian television or British television.

  Rachel Griffiths

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Grew, Watching, Television

Rachel Griffiths (21)

Birth:	18th December, 1968
Nationality:	Australian
Profession:	Actress

About

Rachel Anne Griffiths is an Australian film and television actress. She came to prominence with the 1994 film Muriel's Wedding and her Academy Award nominated performance in Hilary and Jackie. She is best known for her portrayals of Brenda Chenowith in the HBO series Six Feet Under and Sarah Walker Laurent on the ABC primetime drama Brothers & Sisters. Her work in film and television has earned her a Golden Globe Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards and three Australian Film Institute Awards.

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