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Geoffrey Rush Biography

Geoffrey Roy Rush AC (born 6 July 1951) is an Australian actor. Rush is amongst 23 people who have won the "Triple Crown of Acting": an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and a Tony Award. He has won one Academy Award for acting (of four nominations), three British Academy Film Awards (of five nominations), two Golden Globe Awards, and four Screen Actors Guild Awards. Rush 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 the first actor to win the Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Critics' Choice Movie Award, Golden Globe Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award for a single performance in film for his performance in Shine (1996).

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I wouldn't mind meeting some of the people I've attempted to portray from the olden, olden days. They probably would all have really terrible skin and horrible bad breath, and I'd have to give them an Altoid.

Giving, Mind, Olden, People, Skin

When you are playing an egomaniac running a fantastical ship, you don't want him to be too suburban. Naturalism doesn't work on the high seas.

Egomaniac, High, Playing, Running, Sea, Want

Someone told me that there's a connection to Superman, that in an early edition of the Green Lantern comics, Tomar Re was the envoy to Krypton. That was fascinating to me.

Connections, Edition, Envoy, Green, Krypton, Superman

Freedom is the kind of essence of being a pirate: You're away from land-locked Europe. You're not part of the society. You're part of the brotherhood of the sea, Your ship is your sense of identity. So when you approach the wheel, that's what you own.

Europe, Kind, Land, Sea, Ship, Society

I die in almost every film I've been in.

Die, Dies, Film

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.

Children, Happens, Parent, Part, Think, Thinking

People are intrigued and fascinated, almost obsessed with the private lives of great public personalities.

Fascinated, Intrigued, Obsessed, Obsession, People, Personality

I suddenly became aware over the last couple of years that I'm in my sixties. I never thought about it. I thought I'd better start acting my age or find roles that are going to be interesting to me in the sexagenarian repertoire, because it's not what you do in your forties or fifties.

Age, Couple, Interesting, Sixties, Thought, Years

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.

Induced, Period, Shining, Stress, Thinking, Tossing

There's often rarely any dialogue in a sex scene. With your fellow actor, it's good to talk about what the unspoken dialogue is, that's happening in the scene. You've got to play something rather than feel self-conscious or exposed.

Play, Rarely, Self, Sex, Unspoken

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. '

Priority, Say, School, Sleep, Strong, Travel

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.

Able, Keeps, Might, Saying, Understand, Voice

People tend to think of Brisbane as a sleepy, sub-topical place. I don't know. It's like Baltimore or something. I don't know. You would hear the family dramas going on behind closed doors.

Doors, Drama, Dramas, People, Sleepy, Thinking

I do love perusing the dictionary to find how many words I don't use - words that have specific, sharp, focused meaning. I also love the sound of certain words. I love the sound of the word pom-pom.

Certain, Perusing, Sound, Use, Words

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.

Actors, Cinema, Dimension, Kicking, Kind

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.

Believe, Casts, People, Tantrums, Thinking, Throw

What I appreciated was the fact that the script delved into how Australians were - and still are - condescended to by the English.

Appreciated, Australians, Condescended, English, Facts, Scripts

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

Chef, Fantasy, Kitchen, Life

Sometimes you do feel a script that glows in your hand the moment you start reading it. By page four of Shakespeare in Love, I said, 'I have to be in this movie.

Four, Hands, Love, Page, Reading, Script

I didn't know the Green Lantern comics at all. I was a Superman reader.

Green, Know, Knows, Reader, Superman

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