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I never really cared about what I looked like. Gemma Ward
About Never Like Looked Really Cared
I got on stage for the first time when I was seven. From seven until I was about nine it was probably more to do with just being on stage and having the attention. Gemma Ward
Time First Stage Nine Seven About Having More Attention Until First Time Got Just Being
As a child, I was a clown. I didn't hesitate to make a fool of myself and I would love to completely take on wacky characters. Gemma Ward
Love Myself Fool Clown Hesitate Characters Would Take Make Wacky Child
I've always admired Cate Blanchett and the roles she chooses. I think she's got an incredible discipline in a way, with choosing roles that are going to help her grow and bring something interesting to the world. Gemma Ward
World Discipline Think Incredible Way Admired Something Cate Blanchett She Always Got Roles Going Interesting Chooses Choosing Help Grow Her Bring
Nobody ever said that growing old would be easy. Just having to hold the newspaper out in your forties and then hair growing out of unusual parts of your body in your fifties. It's tough on the ego. Geoffrey Rush
Ego Old Tough Hair Out Would Would-Be Easy Having Nobody Unusual Parts Said Just Hold Newspaper Then Fifties Forties Body Your Your Body Growing Growing Old Ever
I dreamt of being an astronomer; I had a series of 'How and Why' books on the planets and the stars. At that stage, there were only 14 galaxies; now there are multiverses, dark matter, the nano-microscopic world of the interior of atomic structure. Geoffrey Rush
Interior World Dark Matter Stage Stars Books Astronomer Dreamt Atomic Structure Only Had How Were Being Galaxies Planets Series Now Why
Yeah, well, the F-bomb - it's become as ubiquitous as the word 'like.' People just throw the word 'like' around as punctuation. And I think in a lot of everyday speech, the F-bomb has become a kind of dash or a comma. Geoffrey Rush
People Word Become Think Everyday Punctuation Kind Dash Throw Like Well Around Yeah Comma Lot Just Speech
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. Geoffrey Rush
Business Anxiety Seriously Stress Thought Shine Before Thinking Panic Bad Tossing Restless Pretty Attacks Through Had Wrong Induced Know Period Sure Been Often Wanted Shot Why
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. Geoffrey Rush
Time Me You Yourself People Face Tough Fall Before Dust Tell Come Terrific Fallen Off Up Get Just Want Flat Next Next Time
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. Geoffrey Rush
You Parents Young Group Think Side More Mentor Could Adult Part Wrong Wrong Side Am Any Oh Young Adults Children Happens Working Your Who Now Started Playing
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. Geoffrey Rush
Family You People Closed Doors Think Sleepy Dramas Would Something Tend Like Know Hear Baltimore Closed Doors Going Behind Place
I knew all about Edward VIII's abdication, George VI becoming the king and having a stammer, but nothing about how he got rid of it. Geoffrey Rush
King Nothing About Having He Knew Becoming Got How George Edward Stammer Rid
What I appreciated was the fact that the script delved into how Australians were - and still are - condescended to by the English. Geoffrey Rush
Fact How Still Were Condescended Australians Script English Appreciated
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. Geoffrey Rush
You People Wonderful Believe Think Monkey Films Caribbean Would Temperamental Casts Throw Had Like Most Been Tantrums Wonderful People Pirates Worked Large
They were saying, 'Keep this under your hat, but Jack Sparrow's going to die in the second movie.' I went, 'You're kidding me. The fans are going to go berserk.' Geoffrey Rush
Saying Me You Fans Kidding Berserk Hat Go Were Jack Die Going Movie Sparrow Your Keep Second
I was never a leading man. I've always been in the outer concentric circles in the company, being a character actor, which is a good place to be. It gives you that diversity. Geoffrey Rush
Good Character You Man Diversity Circles Character Actor Outer Good Place Gives Never Leading Leading Man Always Been Being Place Which Company Actor
I die in almost every film I've been in. Geoffrey Rush
Every Almost Been Die Film
There's four biggies. There was Elizabeth I, George III, Victoria, and the current queen, who really dominated four eras. Geoffrey Rush
Queen Eras George Dominated Current Victoria Really Who Four Elizabeth Elizabeth I
I always felt thrilled and amazed that I could put actor on my tax form. Geoffrey Rush
Amazing Thrilled Could Put Felt Always Amazed Tax Form Actor
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. Geoffrey Rush
Me Superman Someone Edition Comics Green Lantern Connection Fascinating Early
I think that Ionesco's greatest weapon is that he's able to make us laugh at the darkest corners of our souls. Geoffrey Rush
Darkest Think Corners Our Laugh Weapon Able He Make Greatest Souls Greatest Weapon Us
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.' Geoffrey Rush
Love You Sometimes Reading Shakespeare Feel Said Hand Movie Script Page Your Moment Four Start
If you're in an Egyptian film and you're not Egyptian, you have to wear mascara and stuff like that. Geoffrey Rush
You Wear Mascara Stuff Like Egyptian Film
It was nice to play something that felt a little more muted or internalized in 'The Daughter.' Geoffrey Rush
Daughter Nice Muted Something More Felt Little Play
Einstein was very attracted to Mozart. There's a mathematical, classical structure to the music, and I think he identified with that very strongly. I think there also is a connection between being a genius and a polymath. Geoffrey Rush
Music Genius Think Classical Strongly Structure He Between Attracted Identified Also Mathematical Very Being Einstein Mozart Connection
I'm a very amateur scientist. For me, it started with the Mercury space program and onward to the moon landing in my impressionable adolescent years. Geoffrey Rush
Me Space Moon Adolescent Onward Mercury Amateur Scientist Years Very Space Program To The Moon Landing Started Program
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