Daily Inspiration Quote by Rachel Griffiths

Casting is supposed to look like strategy, but Rachel Griffiths is describing something closer to appetite. "I'm quite intuitive about what I pick" politely rejects the industry fantasy that every role is a chess move toward prestige. Instead, she frames choice as mood-driven and bodily: the work you just finished leaves a residue, and the next job is either an antidote or an extension of that feeling.

The key phrase is "Often it's to do with what I've just done". Actors are treated like they live in a permanent audition, endlessly available and easily reset. Griffiths reminds you that projects don t end when the wrap party does; they imprint. If you have just played grief, maybe you crave comedy not because it s lighter, but because it lets you exhale. If you have just done something glossy and controlled, maybe you chase messiness to feel alive again. Her method isn t anti-intellectual; it s anti-brand. She s saying the through-line is not genre or award math, it s her nervous system.

There's also a quiet claim of agency in "how I'm feeling". In a business that commodifies emotional access, naming your own emotional state is a boundary. It suggests she s choosing roles that meet her where she is, not roles that perform a marketable version of who she should be. Intuition here becomes a professional tool: a way to stay porous enough to act, without being flattened into a predictable product.