A Golden Globe is a mood-altering substance, there's no doubt about that.
Acting is like playing, while directing is really fun, sort of like an orgy.
Also, I was too tired to do a lead role and liked the idea of playing someone less complicated than my TV character.
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.
But just playing the partner of someone famous, I had a lot more freedom.
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.
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.
I grew up on cricket and I think Australian kids are getting so Americanized, you know?
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.
I just don't see where I could possibly fit in directing a feature.
I live in Sydney, but my partner lives in Melbourne, and my family is in Melbourne.
I love to work with the team and the problem solving - It's problem solving in a really vigorous way that acting.
I think a big part of our attraction to sport movies are the stories contained within the sports.
I think baseball - the baseball genre - is this mitt, to use a double pun there, to catch a whole bunch of themes.
I think family movies have gotten so rich in this country.
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.
I'm developing some screenplays at the moment with my Australian producer.
I'm pretty ruthless about that; I think when you sign over your story, you sign over your story.
I'm quite intuitive about what I pick. Often it's to do with what I've just done and how I'm feeling.
I'm so motivated to collaborate with people and help them realize the kind of collective vision.
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.
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.
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.
My acting creature is this very volatile - it's like a boxer, I'm prepped up for the fight, just ready to react.
People going into the cities for the opportunities and the towns are getting older, no young people.
The closest thing I've got to baseball is playing rounders at school or my brothers using me as a cricket stump and throwing cricket balls at me!
The filmmaker's got to make it his story and the actors have got to make it their story.
The other thing is that we grow up with American and British television equally.
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.
There's nothing as exciting as a comeback - seeing someone with dreams, watching them fail, and then getting a second chance.
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.
We've got our football where no one wears anything and the guys are in little shorts and they beat the crap out of each other, and they can catch it and they can kick it, and it's the only place it's played in the world.
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.
You know Texas is - even more now that Enron has bit the dust - it's held up on the back of small businesses.
Rachel is six years younger than her co-star on the TV show "Brothers & Sisters" Calista Flockhart, but plays Calista's older sister.
When Melbourne’s Crown Casino opened in 1996, Rachel famously ran through the casino topless.
Rachel won an AFI (Australian Film Industry) award, Best Actress in a Leading role, for Hard Wood in 2002.
Rachel's short film "Tulip" went on to win best short film at the Toronto and Palm Spring film Festivals.
Rachel's daughter Adelaide Rose Taylor, has dual US/Australian citizenship.
Rachel's father’s father was Welsh.
Rachel received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the 1998 movie "Hilary and Jackie".
Rachel graduated from Victoria College with a Bachelor of Education degree in drama and dance.
Rachel has been married to the Australian actor Andrew Taylor since December 31st, 2002.
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