Rachel Griffiths Quotes
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All respects to the execution of "The Boys", but it's very disturbing. And "In the Winter Dark" was just an appalling script and I don't know how it ever got made.
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I'm actually quite relieved I didn't do that blockbuster I was chasing because everybody hates it.
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There's nothing as exciting as a comeback - seeing someone with dreams, watching them fail, and then getting a second chance.
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I'm not against doing all kinds of films and I don't have a political platform about working over a certain budget. As long as the role and the story are good, I'll do anything.
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It’s a very real conflict in a woman of seeing people outside herself who need help, and feeling the limitations of her own life. She’s pregnant and is going to be bringing life into the world, and reaching a point where she can’t do more than she’s doing to save this person. I’ve studied as a teacher, I’ve felt responsible for other people, but not with the same kind of intimacy.
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Also, I was too tired to do a lead role and liked the idea of playing someone less complicated than my TV character.
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I'm so motivated to collaborate with people and help them realize the kind of collective vision.
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In Britain, people thought I was British and for a long time, I'd do one movie or another and they wouldn't even know it was the same person.
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When I read the script for "The Rookie" I'd just finished the first series of Six Feet Under, which I enjoyed enormously, but certainly had bigger emotions explored on a daily basis than a human being is meant to have in a six month period, so I wasn't looking for anything too demanding. Also, I was too tired to do a lead role and liked the idea of playing someone less complicated than my TV character.
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I felt very lucky. It felt like the right time. I was also lucky on Six Feet, to be part of a show that was very family friendly. I had my kids there and we're going to do the same thing here (Brothers and Sisters).
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A trait of Australians is that we tend not to blow our own trumpets. I think there's something about being here in America where you're just more likely to say: "I'm really good at what I do and if I work hard it will happen." No-one laughs at you for saying it here.
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Well, last year after the Oscar [nomination], there was one huge blockbuster I was chasing like mad because I thought it would be a lot of fun. After "Hilary and Jackie" and the nomination, I got mostly intense stuff and some bigger-budget things, but I chose to go home and do the play "A Doll's House". It was kind of the nail in the coffin in my working at that kind of emotional pitch; you know, the whole family of emotions you're only meant to go through once every couple of years in your life. I'd been putting myself through it in my job for eight months out of the year.
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I think they are starting to realize, especially with Cate Blanchett and myself and Toni Collette and Frances O'Connor - a whole bunch of Aussie girls - we're pretty good at jumping around.
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I was a life model for classes of 70 year old pupils. Funny, right? It was perfect, though, because I was a terrible waitress. I just couldn't handle the stess of trying to keep track of all those food orders.
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It's like Australia gets to go to the Super Bowl. You know they're going crazy for it, I think there's this huge party in Sydney.
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If, as an actor, you are truthfully moved by the story you're telling, you can then offer that to an audience to identify with.
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It's a very rare opportunity to one's life when one gets to express gratitude on a level that really means a lot to people.
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I work, I play and I get well paid. How lucky can you get?
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But just playing the partner of someone famous, I had a lot more freedom.
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We grew up as kids watching those movies and we were exposed to themes of civil rights, unfairness, bigotry and fathers struggling against the kind of mob of the town, so you remember how you felt as a kid being taken seriously, that you are part of the human drama.
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I live in Sydney, but my partner lives in Melbourne, and my family is in Melbourne.
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Up until five seasons, we actually kind of remember the trip. After that, we forget where we've been.
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I think baseball - the baseball genre - is this mitt, to use a double pun there, to catch a whole bunch of themes.
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Yeah. In Sarah’s marriage, we really want to look at the kinds of issues- the exhaustion, distraction, just getting through the day- that come when you have young kids, and just trying to find each other in that.
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Certainly in America I wasn't being offered romantic comedies or lighter roles because in everyone's imagination I was this very intense person.
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There's a good sense of fun and lack of sarcasm in the Texans, maybe a little earnestness which is kind of why I found it quite Australian.
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I just felt like I had to make her true for myself.
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Somehow this guy is someone that can go places that no other writer can take people, where they stay with him and go back for more. He explores their kind of darkest neuroses, and I think it's his discipline of being a sitcom writer that he just knows when to give us a scene or a line that takes the pressure valve and lets our steam out; he's so original.
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I found it an interesting portrait of a marriage in exploring notions of how one partner supports the other, whilst not jeopardizing the greater good - which is the family.
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I'm pretty ruthless about that; I think when you sign over your story, you sign over your story.
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The other thing is that we grow up with American and British television equally.
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The filmmaker's got to make it his story and the actors have got to make it their story.
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I love doing films where you can do really different things.
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And I grew up watching all the British ones so when you hear that from an early age, it makes it much easier than you guys who don't grow up with Australian television or British television.
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I didn't become an actor so that my life and work could be separate things. I feel great about being able to come in and say, “I had this great idea. This thing happened with Banjo over the weekend.” I’ve already dine that once. [Executive producer] Ken Olin said, “Oh, that’s great.”
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I'm mostly attracted to films that have a sense of purpose. Occasionally there's an exception because I'll just want to stretch myself in a new direction and the role facilitates that. I just don't think I could ever participate in a film — nor would I be attracted to a film — where the writer or director has a nihilistic view of the universe. I just don't think I could spend four months there.
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I couldn't happily live anywhere else outside of Australia.
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A Golden Globe is a mood-altering substance, there's no doubt about that.
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Sarah's trying to juggle two kids and a working life. She's at a major company and comes back to the family firm thinking it'll be easier. But this time the stakes are really high because if the company fails, it's the family's future.
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It is kind of Six Feet Under meets Dynasty.
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I'm developing some screenplays at the moment with my Australian producer.~ Rachel Griffiths Quote
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People going into the cities for the opportunities and the towns are getting older, no young people.
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Why movies are so powerful is because you are right in there and you stay in there until they want you to come out, and then you've really gone somewhere.
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I’ve had a really great year, because I went back to work when Banjo was barely 6 weeks old, and that was a little traumatic, to be honest. As supportive as the Six Feet Under environment was, I was really quite unprepared for knowing how it would work.
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A little bit. [You have to] kind of imagine how you’re going to bring your little baby in and make sure his needs are met… to say, “OK, guys, I know there’s a hundred people standing around, but I’ve got to just be with my baby now for about 20 minutes.
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She's really beautiful, really warm, really competent. Harvard Business School, loving mother of two, just trying to juggle the whole thing with elegance and depth. She’s been bought in to sort out what the hell has happened to this family company.
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I just don't see where I could possibly fit in directing a feature.
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When I accepted my Golden Globe for Six Feet Under I think I surprised a lot of people once they heard me speak. Plus I have a habit of staying in accent for my roles and then at the end of filming going back to my Australian accent.
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I love to work with the team and the problem solving - It's problem solving in a really vigorous way that acting.
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No. It was a really great time for that show to end. It was great that [creator] Alan Ball was still a central figure right to the end, and that he was still engaged in it. Alan is the key voice of his generation- he speaks for this time the same way that Eugene O’Neill and Tennessee Williams spoke for theirs.
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I think a big part of our attraction to sport movies are the stories contained within the sports. There's nothing as exciting as a comeback - seeing someone with dreams, watching them fail, and then getting a second chance.
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I grew up on cricket and I think Australian kids are getting so Americanized, you know?
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Sarah feels much more powerful in the world. She’s not debilitated by personal issues, but she’s still very feeling and very sensitive. And very mothering.
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It was a lovely opportunity for the first time in my whole career to stand up and thank people who are really responsible for me getting to realize my dreams.
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I really do envy Toni (Collette) and Geoffrey (Rush), who manage to live their lives in Australia. They are very fortunate to go and make movies and then go back to Australia. It's really not been so easy for me to do that. I feel like I have to come here (LA) and hang around if I'm to get some work. In my ideal existence I'm in Australia with the option to come here to do one project a year and one back at home.
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I had a fear of being away from Australia so I've gotten home four times this year, during this season, which is basically every seven weeks.
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I'm quite intuitive about what I pick. Often it's to do with what I've just done and how I'm feeling.
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The thing you just have to know about Brenda is that her good intention is there.
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I get paid to move people, and in this as a supporting actor to support Dennis - I kind of explore the part of the story that's not about baseball.
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Neither Calista or I have sisters and that was part of our mutual attraction. On Six Feet Under, I didn't have a sister and on Ally McBeal, she didn't either. It's something new to explore. Besides that, she's adorable.
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I think Australia shuns films that would push to find an audience anywhere. I think we often make less commercial films so why be surprised when they don't do commercial business? They're art-house films and that draws a certain audience.
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It's about a man who has a nervous breakdown, which I call Anxiety Has Arrived, as if I wanted to put you in the seat of having an anxiety attack.
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I just don't think I could ever participate in a film - nor would I be attracted to a film - where the writer or director has a nihilistic view of the universe. I just don't think I could spend four months there.
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You know Texas is - even more now that Enron has bit the dust - it's held up on the back of small businesses.
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My acting creature is this very volatile - it's like a boxer, I'm prepped up for the fight, just ready to react.
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I really miss Aussie theatre, so what I'm really hoping is that Brothers And Sisters buys me a bit of freedom back there to do that stuff.
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I think family movies have gotten so rich in this country.
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I remember doing a pilot in the US and on the last day one of the crew asked me what I was going to do once we'd finished and I dropped my American accent and replied "I think I'm going to go back to Australia". The guy almost fell over!
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