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Vote: | Goldie was beyond generous. We first met at the BAFTAs in London, when she was there with her daughter Kate. I was there with "Quills" and we just hit it off. We went dancing, which is something I never do. We hit the dance floor together. I think we made the tabloids. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | I always had a fantasy of being a chef, because I like kitchen life. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Geoffrey Rush (born July 6, 1951) is an Australian actor. Born in Toowoomba, Queensland, he began his acting career with the Queensland Theatre Company in Brisbane. He also has an Arts Degree from the University of Queensland. While in college, he roomed with Mel Gibson.
Rush's film debut was in the Australian film Hoodwink in 1981. His next film was in Gillian Armstrong's Starstruck, the following year. In 1996, he starred in Shine, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor. From that point on, his career skyrocketed. In 1998 he appeared in three major films -- Les Misérables, in which he played Inspector Javert; Elizabeth, in which he played the suspicious Sir Francis Walsingham; and Shakespeare in Love in which he played the acting company manager who remained calm in the midst of chaos (and received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor).
In 2000, he received his third Academy Award nomination, for Quills, in which he played the Marquis de Sade.
Rush's career continues at an amazingly fast pace, with nine films released from 2001 through 2003. Rush also starred in the movie Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, as Captain Barbossa. He also played actor Peter Sellers in the TV movie The Life and Death of Peter Sellers.
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