Geoffrey Rush Quotes

Acting is a symbiotic process, it is an amalgamation of many many things put together and when there is a call for action, that's when you surrender and the moment of truth comes out, that's when you perform. That is the process for every good actor.

It's sort of the most important thing for acting, is to listen to the person you're dealing with.

Actors usually respond to minor aspects of their own character or things that even feel disparate from themselves.

I'm the sort of actor who likes to talk about what we're going to do.

I think that different actors go about their preparation differently, but when it comes to acting, I use my imagination.

I guess I'm probably a Method actor; I don't know... I just think of it as staying in the zone.

The more and more I work with really great actors, the more it's about opening yourself up to what they bring.

I love an acting challenge, and I love getting to sit down with my script and do all my drama work.

When you drop your guard in films, the acting process compensates. You get lazy and you start acting.

If I'm doing my job as an actor, the audience knows everything I know about the character.

I just love the process of working with other actors.

As an actor, you pay attention very closely to everything that happens to you, and you're constantly watching others as well, trying to just find out where everything comes from.

One of the exciting and enjoyable aspects of acting is being in the environment with another actor.

The key to acting - from what little I know about that wonderful craft - is listening, and interacting with the other person in order to achieve magic. One way to do that is almost to provoke.

I walk into a scene, and I do the scene. That's my job. I don't have an objective. I have the words, and I have whoever I'm playing with.

Same job, whether it's comedy or drama. Regardless of the weight of the role, I feel like the job is always kind of the same. Who is this person? What's this guy here, and how is he playing with this thing, and what's he trying to say? And what's the volley with all these other people around him?

I'm a task-oriented actor. A pretender. And I try to invent my process anew each time I make a new project. So I frown on any method.

I live in the energy and rhythm of the character. To some degree, that's true of every actor I've worked with.

As an actor, the only thing you have is your instinct and your imagination.

I know how to hit a mark without looking. I instinctively know where my eye line should be. That's all 100%. But your character and the story are always different, so the emotional part is not muscle memory. You're still surprised by stuff and get the adrenaline.

When you get to set, you don't try to play the plot; you just play the character.

Acting has always been very comfortable for me, so it allows me to pay attention to other parts of the process literally while I'm acting.

Once you are in the character, you should let your inner actor take over you.

I am a natural actor. I try to keep it spontaneous as far as possible. That is my mantra.

As an actor, I'm more interested in characters the longer I have lived with them.