I was not the young heroic model for 'Hamlet.' I tended to play those characters that orbited around them: the rogues and the rat bags and the idiots and the fools and the clowns that sway the plot somehow from a tangent.

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Clowns, Young, Play, Rat, Fools, Plot, Idiots, Them

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Heath Ledger, Hugh Jackman, Errol Flynn, Russell Crowe, Alex O'Loughlin, Chris Hemsworth, Paul Hogan, Ben Mendelsohn, Dan Feuerriegel

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Australian - Actor Born: July 6, 1951

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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

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Fall Dust Fallen

I'm not a very serious person. You know how they say that clowns are very funny in public and are really sad at home? I'm really kind of stupid at home and more serious in public.Roland Joffe

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They Say Stupid

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

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Leading Good Place Circles

I have a penchant for playing God's clowns. Actually, I played Nijinsky once, and he used to call himself God's clown.Stephen Lang

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I first came to Russia because of the culture, literature and music... and my interest in the 19th-century revolutionary spirit of Herzen, Bakunin and Kropotkin. Russia is a wonderful place to bring new clowns because Russians give back a wonderful response.Patch Adams

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Response Russia Russians

I'm really scared of clowns, and for a while, I was scared to perform and sing in front of a crowd. Also, I'm not a big scary movie guy. They stay with me for a while.Luke Benward

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Perform Scared Scary Movie

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

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Anxiety Restless Attacks

I went to NYU Tisch for undergrad, and it was amazing. My life then was extremely experimental with acting. I did crazy theater where we would be rolling around on the floor. I would be playing grandmothers, and clowns, and all this crazy stuff. Then I would be doing Shakespeare eight hours a day.Katie Lowes

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Grandmother Floor Nyu

I'm in 'Gods of Egypt.' It was CGI on a level that I've never encountered. You're in a blue environment on a mirrored floor because that's going to be looking like Ra the Sun God's boat. In the studio, it was like I was in a Robert Lepage theatrical piece.Geoffrey Rush

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Theatrical Encountered Boat

I don't give a crap about clowns.Blake Shelton

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A huge part of what we do as actors is learning to ignore the camera, as if it's not even there, while simultaneously being very aware of the camera and what it's capturing, because you can give the best performance of your life, but if you do it with the back of your head facing the camera, it's going to get cut from the movie.Geoffrey Rush

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Performance Huge Part Cut

I think that when you've got a world in which it's plausible to have a guy dressed as a giant bat and fight evil clowns and other nightmarish freaks, I think the world has to be visually a little more arresting than a regular world.Paul Dini

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Freaks Plausible Giant

If you're in an Egyptian film and you're not Egyptian, you have to wear mascara and stuff like that.Geoffrey Rush

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Mascara Egyptian

I think I always was a bit of a class clown, but I don't know how successful I was at that. I always think, when I read about people being class clowns, I imagine them being actually very funny, and I don't know that I was. But I tried to be, I think.Chris Parnell

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Class Clown Clown I Tried