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
He's gonna travel with me, ... A Beautiful Mind.
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.
What is Egyptian cotton, and why would I travel with my own sheets?
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.
I'll pass that applause on to my mother.
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.
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,
If there are any problems and you do get up here and go on too long, ... Then 'hello' to my little friend.
Once he goes to school things are really going to have to change at supposedly that point. 'Cause I don't think I'd like to do anything, you know, more than pick him up from the school gate every day.
Hopefully at some stage, I'll be able to apologize directly to Nestor but at the moment, he's not answering his phone.
He actually, at the end of the movie, had his fists up in the air and he said to me, it is the best one you have done son.
If I'm an international menace like the (prosecuting) attorney is suggesting, then fine. I'll just stay here.
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 couldn't be happier for her, her family, her pets, everyone, ... Gladiator.