Geoffrey Rush movie quotes

“Dying is the day worth living for.”
Geoffrey Rush - Captain Hector Barbossa

“- Evelyn: Who invited them?
- Stephen Price: I don't know, it wasn't me and you say it wasn't you. Who then, Evelyn? Ghosts?”
Famke Janssen - Evelyn
Geoffrey Rush - Stephen Price

“You were the most powerful man in England. And you could have been greater still, but you had not the courage to be loyal, only the conviction of your own vanity.”

Geoffrey Rush - Sir Francis Walsingham

“What is God to you? Has He abandoned you? Is He such a worldly God that He must play at politics in the filth of conspiracy? Is He not divine? Tell me the truth, as if you were face to face with Him now.”

Geoffrey Rush - Sir Francis Walsingham

“You killed them for the sake of a country you now choose to abandon. The country your mother and father built, that you were born into. You killed them for Munich, for the future, for peace.”

Geoffrey Rush - Ephraim

“- Capt. Amazing: I knew you couldn't change.
- Casanova Frankenstein: I knew you'd know that.
- Capt. Amazing: Oh, I know that. And I knew you'd know I'd know you knew.
- Casanova Frankenstein: But I didn't. I only knew that you'd know that I knew. Did you know that?
- Capt. Amazing: Of course.”
Greg Kinnear - Captain Amazing
Geoffrey Rush - Casanova Frankenstein

- Elizabeth Swann: According to the Code of the Order of the Brethren...
- Barbossa: First, your return to shore was not part of our negotiations nor our agreement so I must do nothing. And secondly, you must be a pirate for the pirate's code to apply and you're not. And thirdly, the code is more what you'd call "guidelines" than actual rules.
Keira Knightley - Elizabeth Swann
Geoffrey Rush - Barbossa

“- Capt. Amazing: I really think we need to talk about your plans, here.
- Casanova Frankenstein: You know my plans, Lancie: tomorrow night I'm going to kill you.
- Capt. Amazing: Right, that's the part that really doesn't work for me...”
Greg Kinnear - Captain Amazing
Geoffrey Rush - Casanova Frankenstein

“- Evelyn: Stephen, if you really love me, you'll find a way to drop dead in the next second.
- Stephen Price: Oh, but baby, finding ways for me to die is really your thing. Let's not forget the O.J. knife with the not-so-retractable blade, the Jim Jones Kool-Aid, which was exactly that...
- Evelyn: Accidents, all accidents until proven otherwise.”
Famke Janssen - Evelyn
Geoffrey Rush - Stephen Price

“Prepare yourself for the most impure tale ever to spring from the mind of man.”
Geoffrey Rush - The Marquis de Sade

“There are but two choices: he would get into bed with either Spain or France.”

Geoffrey Rush - Sir Francis Walsingham

“These chastity vows of yours. How strict are they? Suppose you only put it in her mouth?”
Geoffrey Rush - The Marquis de Sade

“- Channel 3 Reporter: So, Mr. Price, business or pleasure?
- Stephen Price: Neither. My wife.”
Lisa Loeb - Channel 3 Reporter
Geoffrey Rush - Stephen Price

“- The Marquis de Sade: I write of the great, eternal truths that bind together all mankind. The whole world over, we eat, we shit, we fuck, we kill and we die.
- Coulmier: But we also fall in love, we build cities, we compose symphonies, and we endure. Why not put that in your books as well.”
Geoffrey Rush - The Marquis de Sade
Joaquin Phoenix - Coulmier

“Are your convictions so fragile they cannot stand in opposition to mine? Is your God so flimsey, so weak! For shame.”
Geoffrey Rush - The Marquis de Sade

“- Philip Henslowe: I need actors! Those of you who are unknown will have a chance to be known!
- Tavern Patron: What about the money, Mr. Henslowe?
- Philip Henslowe: It won't cost you a penny! Ha ha ha ha!”
Geoffrey Rush - Philip Henslowe

“He lies so well, doesn't he? He's had a lot of practice. A lifetime of lies.”

Geoffrey Rush - Javert

“- Sir Francis Walsingham: Her Majesty rules with the heart... not with the head.
- Mary of Guise: I understand. It is hard for a woman to forget her heart.”

Geoffrey Rush - Sir Francis Walsingham
Fanny Ardant - Mary of Guise