Geoffrey Rush Quotes

Geoffrey Rush — Australian Actor born on July 06, 1951,

Geoffrey Roy Rush AC is an internationally renowned Australian actor and film producer. He is the youngest of the few people who have won the "Triple Crown of Acting": the Academy Award, the Primetime Emmy Award, and the Tony Award. He has won one Academy Award for acting, three British Academy Film Awards, two Golden Globe Awards and four Screen Actors Guild Awards. He is the founding President of the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts and was named the 2012 Australian of the Year. He is also notable for being the first actor to win the Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Critics’ Choice Movie Award, Golden Globe Award, Screen Actors Guild Award for a single performance in film for his performance in Shine... (wikipedia)

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 always felt thrilled and amazed that I could put actor on my tax form.

I always had a fantasy of being a chef, because I like kitchen life.

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.

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 Quotes

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