Geoffrey Rush quotes His role in 'Shine' (1996) Born: 07/06/1951 Country: australia

• “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)
• “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) [people/face/time/dust]
• “Yes, anally retentive men are my forte!” (Geoffrey Rush) [men]
• “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) [problem/think]
• “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) [start/light/start]
• “The Life and Death of Peter Sellers” (Geoffrey Rush) [life/death]
• “The Tailor of Panama” (Geoffrey Rush)
• “Pirates of the Caribbean.” (Geoffrey Rush)
• “People are intrigued and fascinated, almost obsessed with the private lives of great public personalities.” (Geoffrey Rush)
• “I would always slip away to the cinema. I always found something absolutely extraordinary about the fact that these actors were always kind of kicking hard at some new dimension they were doing on film.” (Geoffrey Rush) [actors]
• “We were all pretty certain then that Mel was destined for big things because he had made the first 'Mad Max' (1979) at that point and he had done a couple of other films. It kind of seemed inevitable.” (Geoffrey Rush) [point]
• “I mean, we are talking about one of the most celebrated and twisted characters of Western tradition. It gives you a sense of a do-or-die bravado.” (Geoffrey Rush) [tradition]
• “Well, ya best start believing in ghost stories Miss Turner, you're in one!” (Geoffrey Rush) [start/ghost]
• “You're off the edge of the map Jack, here there be monsters!” (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) [start]
• “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) [thing/being]
• “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) [age]
• “I took a big slab of time off this year -- about five months -- just to take stock of the giddiness of the last few years.” (Geoffrey Rush) [time/take]
• “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) [business/seriously/thinking/shine]
• “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) [parents/think/group]
• “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)
• “I always had a fantasy of being a chef, because I like kitchen life.” (Geoffrey Rush) [fantasy/being]

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