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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
There’s four biggies. There was Elizabeth I, George III, Victoria, and the current queen, who really dominated four eras. Geoffrey Rush Read Quote
Nobody ever said that growing old would be easy. Just having to hold the newspaper out in your forties and then hair growing out of unusual parts of your body in your fifties. It’s tough on the ego. Geoffrey Rush Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Most films I’ve worked on have had large casts, but they’ve been wonderful people. I think the monkey in Pirates of the Caribbean is the most temperamental costar I’ve had. It would throw tantrums like you wouldn’t believe. Geoffrey Rush Read Quote
What I appreciated was the fact that the script delved into how Australians were – and still are – condescended to by the English. Geoffrey Rush Read Quote
