Geoffrey Rush Quotes

As an actor, some of the most fun days I've had on set have involved shooting blanks all day - or better yet, on a micro-budget indie shoot in Texas, shooting live ammo. I feel guilty admitting this, but make-believe beating a man half to death for nine hours can also be strangely satisfying and, dare I say, good fun.

You have to like the characters you play.

I couldn't pick up a sword and go fight anyone, let me put it that way. It's choreography and it's acting. The best sword fights you see look amazing, but it's the acting that sells it more than anything.

I love doing emotional scenes. As I've had a perfect life, I don't really have much to pull from. But it's really fun and not that challenging. It's almost pretty easy. The hardest thing is to try and make people laugh. That's a really hard thing.

What I love to do requires portraying different characters, and you have to separate your life from the role.

Soaps are the best. They really are. If you can do a soap, well, you can do anything. You have to learn pages of dialogue very quickly.

As an actor, you need to be versatile. You need to challenge yourself.

I flew into New York for the Raising Arizona audition, and we just started joking around.

As an actor, I am meant to dabble with different themes and genres.

I guess every actor has certain emotions they can access easier than others.

What I love is acting, and the technical stuff does tend to slow things down.

Juilliard gave me the ability to go and do classical, contemporary, comedy, drama, everything.

Soap operas are like TV boot camp. You have to be able to self-direct, learn a ton of dialogue in a short amount of time, and deliver a performance in one or two takes.

Stevie Van Zandt could not walk on to a set and act. I don't know how actors do that! It's the scariest thing in the world.

I'm not very good when I'm given scripts.

I want everyone to understand that as an actor you need to be able to play different roles, be versatile even in terms of your personality.

I was dancing when I was acting as well. Actors generally dance in performances like in an award function.

I'm an actor and I'm able to do a lot of things and play a lot of characters.

I love to get thrown around, and the reality about it. I hate watching a movie, knowing the actors are faking it.

I have always felt that acting in a film is very challenging in itself. But when it comes to performing live, I think that is more challenging.

I played a waiter on 'Will & Grace,' a waiter on 'Medium' and on 'Weeds.' They all got cut out. I'm an awful waiter in real life. Maybe I was an awful waiter on screen, too.

I have tried different things as an actor and have always believed in experimenting.

I would love to get into acting. I really enjoy acting - portraying other personalities and approaching different levels and whatnot - that would be awesome.

Every time you play a different role with different actors in different locations, you're developing a greater level of comfort in the act of doing this, which is why you're getting better all the time.

I am an actor, I can do any role.