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Quotes by Geoffrey Rush

Goldie was beyond generous. We first met at the BAFTAs in London, when she was there with her daughter Kate. I was there with Quills and we just hit it off. We went dancing, which is something I never do. We hit the dance floor together. I think we made the tabloids.
– Geoffrey Rush
He picks up on something - which is that whether you're a 50-year-old or an adolescent, you're on some kind of hormonal rollercoaster in those two age groups. So I'm not quite sure if it's serious comedy or funny drama.
– Geoffrey Rush
He's a failed Hollywood writer in his 50s and he's going back to Phoenix to address a problem he has with his father. This is where I think [writer/director] Bob Dolman has been really clever.
– Geoffrey Rush
I always had a fantasy of being a chef, because I like kitchen life.
– Geoffrey Rush
I did Quills and I thought I was doing a really daring thing by being in The Banger Sisters. Then I thought, No, I'm playing a writer again. At least I'm celibate in this one!
– 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
I do not want to demonise him and take care in the film not to do that. He was a complex man, full of originality. He was a star on radio and then did all these amazing films. I can not imagine what it would be like to be both blessed and cursed with all that talent.
– Geoffrey Rush
I had a total of 38 wigs, for a start. There were prosthetics, too - silicone pieces which go on the skin, which absorb the light. They looked like seven pieces of uncooked veal to start with.
– 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.
– Geoffrey Rush
It's their story, and I got to be the guy in the back while they were in the foreground.
– Geoffrey Rush
My eye muscles hurt now when I read our MasterCard bill.
– Geoffrey Rush
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
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
Yes, anally retentive men are my forte!
– Geoffrey Rush
You can start with the fact that I am tall and thin and he was short and pretty chubby and very hairy. I was also an Aussie.
– 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
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
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 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