Russell Crowe Quotes (57 Quotes)

But when I can't sleep at night, I design clothes, and this is something I had made up as a crew gift.

Whatever comes out of these gates, do you understand if we stay together, we survive Come together. Stay close. Lock your shields. And stay as one. ... Gladiator.

So to actually make a new No 1 is spectacularly stupid,

I don't make demands. I don't tell you how it should be. I'll give you options, and it's up to you to select or throw 'em away. That should be the headline: If you're insecure, don't call.

I'd like to buy the club. You're actually talking about rugby league fantasy stuff.

Some of the things you read you get an immediate reaction to so I've stopped reading things now. I do worry about my family though. Some people do try some nasty things to get at them and try and get a reaction from them.

I'm trying to fill my basic obligations to my wife who needs to know that I'm at home, I'm in bed, I haven't had too much to drink and that, primarily important, I'm alone,

The first draft I read - goose bumps twice and tears at the end.

Meg Ryan is a beautiful and courageous woman. I grieve the loss of her companionship but I've not lost the friendship. We talk all the time and that was what our connection was about. She has a wonderful mind and we just like a chat.

I am obviously a complicated, messy, psychologically damaged weirdo and that is the fundamental requirement for my job. It's an unfortunate thing that people don't simply understand that and leave me to my padded cell.

I'd move to Los Angeles if New Zealand and Australia were swallowed up by a tidal wave, if there was a bubonic plague in England and if the continent of Africa disappeared from some Martian attack.

Every time I read the script I would get goose bumps, ... It was the idea that this life, this change of fortune, had actually happened. It was real.

I'm reminded of the movie Gladiator ... Well, we have their answer.

You give me a script, and I'll be ready in the morning. I've been doing it all my life. My first job was at six. I fully believe in the fact that I carry enough information, life knowledge and skill to turn my hand to whatever it is. However, it's a privilege to do the research.

If I don't get the goose-bump factor when I'm reading it than I can't do it.

He's gonna travel with me, ... A Beautiful Mind.

God bless America. God save the Queen. God defend New Zealand and thank Christ for Australia.

Jim had to go on the dole, but he didn't wear the pain on his sleeve, ... He accepted it and kept trying to do the best he could for his family. The Great Depression is a character, and I think the villain in this piece is poverty. If there's a single moment in Braddock's life that I think makes him important in history, it's the fact that he went to the Social Security Commission and repaid the money he'd taken when he was on the dole. That shows you more about his character than anything in his boxing career.

I'd move to Los Angeles,' he once said, 'if Australia and New Zealand were swallowed by a huge tidal wave, if there was a bubonic plague in Europe and if Africa disappeared from some Martian attack.' Heat magazine, 4-12 May 2000.

I really feel sorry for people who are, who divide their whole life up into 'things that I like' and 'things that I must do.' You're only here for a short time, mate. Learn to like it.

Lots of people noticed me, they just didn't give me up.

My last words to members were 'let's vote yes, let's get into bed together, I hope you respect me in the morning'.

I work between 'action' and 'cut'. My life doesn't carry on after 'cut' in terms of my relationship with the characters.

Reality is, I'm an actor and an entertainer, and I really wouldn't know what to do with another profession.

Like everyone else, I've had moments when I've felt that I've been losing my grip.

I'll pass that applause on to my mother.

Just this one night is going to raise 1 million so I am going to get my nuts busted with jetlag for a couple of days, but it is really worth it,

A lady came up to me afterwards and said this is better than our last grand final win in 1971. And I would have to say that I agree.

These are questions that every wife has the right to have answered every night, and that's my duty.

I mean that's the plan at this point in time. I think prior to him going to school I think the best thing to do is to make sure that he is wherever I am,

There has to be a mathematical explanation for how bad that tie is.

Traveling businessmen get touchy or testy with hotel staff in every major city all around the world, ... That doesn't excuse the fact that I lost my temper ... What I did was stupid. I admitted that straight away.

It's my grandfather's MBE, which stands for Member of the British Empire. He was awarded this by the Queen of England for his work as a war photographer in the second world war,

People accuse me of being arrogant all the time. I'm not arrogant, I'm focused.

The important thing to me is that I'm not driven by people's praise and I'm not slowed down by people's criticism. I'm just trying to work at the highest level I can.

I have respect for beer.

I do my bit to improve the world, but I think it's very important to get things done on the quiet, ... I'm sick to death of famous people standing up and using their celebrity to promote a cause.

Every time I apply for a visa, it's like you need to take a suitcase to the embassy,

This has been a great day, it was a really amazing thing to be involved in and sitting in that room hearing person after person talk about their love for the club and how the club needs to go forward.

I liked everything I read about Braddock, ... I liked who he was before he was a champion, who he was when he was a champion and who he was afterwards, too. I liked the fact that his otherwise very simple life had this incredible zeitgeist flair in the middle of it and afterwards he just kept working, bringing up his children and loving his wife. For me, it's the story of how one family survived the Depression. Braddock died in 1974 in the same house that he had bought in 1935 with his winnings from the world championship and where he had seen his kids grow up and his grandchildren born.

I never saw Jim as a man who really lived for boxing at all. To me, the story was interesting because of his change of fortune. I thought, 'This is a great story, because it's true. You couldn't make it up.' Braddock had been a very responsible young man when he was doing well as a boxer. He'd saved his money, he hadn't wasted it. He hadn't lived outside his means. He did the thing everybody said to do at the time, which was to invest his money in the stock market. And in October 1929, he lost 85 per cent of his total net worth and was brought to the brink of bankruptcy. Suffice it to say, things turned bad.

What is Egyptian cotton, and why would I travel with my own sheets

Perhaps it is good to have a beautiful mind, but an even greater gift is to discover a beautiful heart.

I'll keep, you know, giving the money. But my attitude is, look, if I'm going to pay for it, I want a say in how it's run.

When I was a little kid, I used to really embarrass my parents.

I didn't want to be a dad under those circumstances. I never wanted to have to have children who would hear the kind of conversations I had to hear my parents having, wondering where the money was going to come from for the next rent.

On himself 'I am a specialist in unrequited love' (mentioned to the audience at the Austin concert)

Who on Earth had the ... audacity to take out the best actor's poem ... I'll make sure you never work in Hollywood.

quiet place to live in Australia.

I like villains because there's something so attractive about a committed person - they have a plan, an ideology, no matter how twisted. They're motivated.