Russell Crowe
Russell Crowe
Russell Ira Croweis an actor, film producer and musician. Although a New Zealand citizen, he has lived most of his life in Australia and identifies himself as an Australian. He came to international attention for his role as the Roman General Maximus Decimus Meridius in the 2000 historical epic film Gladiator, directed by Ridley Scott, for which Crowe won an Academy Award for Best Actor, a Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor, an Empire Award for Best Actor...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth7 April 1964
CityWellingotn, New Zealand
CountryAustralia
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.
Of course you shouldn't get pissed off, of course I shouldn't have thrown something at him, but it's a two-way street. I might have overreacted to a situation, but I was in bed trying to go to sleep. You think I want to put my pants on and go down to the foyer and go, 'What the f--- are you talking about?' to some bloke? Do you really think I want to do that? Come on.
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.
If we didn't have a great bad guy, we've got no movie. If we don't have a villain that appears to be physically threatening, then we don't have a film.
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.
I'd like to buy the club. You're actually talking about rugby league fantasy stuff.
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.
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 can handle this sort of thing ... But it is just not a cool thing to do to a little boy.
But when I can't sleep at night, I design clothes, and this is something I had made up as a crew gift.
possibly the most shameful situation that I've ever gotten myself in in my life.
On himself: 'I am a specialist in unrequited love' (mentioned to the audience at the Austin concert)
Lots of people noticed me, they just didn't give me up.
For me, Cinderella Man is the story of how one family survived the Depression,