Geoffrey Rush Quotes

• "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."
• "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."
• "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."
• "I always had a fantasy of being a chef, because I like kitchen life."
• "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!"
• "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."
• "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."
• "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."
• "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."
• "It's their story, and I got to be the guy in the back while they were in the foreground."
• "My eye muscles hurt now when I read our MasterCard bill."
• "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."
• "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."
• "Yes, anally retentive men are my forte!"
• "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."