Geoffrey Rush Quotes

I've made a point of trying not to play the same part, and of moving between theatre and film and TV. The idea is that by the time you come back, you have been away for a year and people have forgotten you. If you like having time off, which I do, that's a good career strategy.

I've played so many different parts in the last 40 years.

I have my character actor side as a kid and my more leading man side. It's all been beneficial.

Actually ninety-nine percent of my acting has nothing to do sci-fi or fantasy, I consider it a good part of my acting, and enjoy the roles I play.

It's what actors call a big, juicy part, when you're a leading man. I don't get a lot of those. I get a lot of supporting things.

I'm a leading lady character actor; I don't fit in one slot simply. I've always been used to a certain amount of struggle, and that prepared me wonderfully for a mature age.

In the beginning, I got different kind of roles, and then I realised it's great to be that way. And that thought is always there before signing a film.

I will try to bring variety in my roles.

I always thought of myself as a character actor. I never thought of myself as a leading man.

What's great about being a character actor is you know that you can survive forever. It's not about the gloss of your eyebrows.

One of the fun things as an actor is to really spread your wings as wide as possible and do a variety of roles. I've been really lucky in that sense, I think.

I've been really fortunate in the fact that I've gotten a chance to do a real wide range of all different kinds of characters.

I don't have to be a leading man. I can be a character actor. That's really what interests me anyway.

I was always a character actor, basically, that sometimes looks like a leading man.

I have been fortunate to experience a wide range of characters. What more can an actor ask for?

My hopes and aspirations haven't changed since I started in this business. They've been to be able to play drama, to be able to play comedy, to be able to play leading men, and to be able to play character roles. I have no other aspirations in this regard.

I'm quite lucky in that at certain angles I look all right, and at others I don't look so good, which enables me to play some leading roles and some stranger, more 'character'-type parts. I wouldn't say I'm the conventional handsome Hollywood leading man.

I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man or any of that. I'm a character actor.

My dream as an actor growing up was always to challenge myself to different genres, different roles, and it's actually rare that an actor's given that opportunity to do that.

I'm looking forward to playing the meatier roles you get in your 30s. The early 20s can be a hard time for an actress - it's always bombshell or romantic lead. The good stuff you can really sink your teeth into comes later.

I want to play everything. I want to be like Christian Bale: I want to be able to be Batman and then, like, his character in 'The Fighter.' That is what is so impressive about really good actors, that they can be character actors and leading men at the same time.

I consider myself absolutely a character actor, and that's what I want as a career. I don't need to be the lead star or any of that, as long as I'm doing stuff that I'm proud of, really.

I don't want to only play the leading man for the rest of my career.

I'm not a leading man; I don't think I've got the face of a leading man, and I don't think, ever in my life, someone will cast me in the role of a leading man.

I always knew I'd be more of a character actor than a leading man, and I always wanted to take that and run with it.