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Russell Crowe Biography

Russell Ira Crowe (born 7 April 1964) is an actor, film producer and musician. Although a New Zealand citizen, he has lived most of his life in Australia. 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 and a London Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor and 10 further nominations for best actor.

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While I was trying to save money to go to the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Australia I ended up getting all of this experience which meant that by the time I had enough money in the bank to go to school I didn't really need to go to school anymore.

Art, Australia, Enough, Meant, National, School

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.

Art, Down, Driven, Motivation, People, Praise

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

Bad, Beautiful Mind, Explanation, Mathematical, Ties

You don't want to be starting a film not knowing what you want to do.

Film, Knowing, Starting, Want

I'd like to play passionate women, but no one will let me.

Let, Let Me, Like, Passionate, Play, Women

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

Embarrass, Kid, Kids, Nba, Parent, Used

On Sharon Stone (Quick and the Dead): 'She was instrumental about me getting my first American job. Absolutely, without her support, it would not have happened. At the same time, however, was it really about me or her wanting to flex her producerial muscles? I don't want to sound ungallant about the situation. But I didn't find that in working with her, that we clicked on any other level.

Jobs, Sound, Stone, Support, Working

I always say I've given 24 insufficient performances and I'm looking forward to the time in my life when I'll do something that I think is good. There's always stuff you can do better, stuff that maybe you didn't uncover enough. But if you do something that you truly believe is perfect, then that's got to be the last movie you do.

Believe, Insufficient, Maybe, Perfect, Performances, Thinking

I don't know if I was ever looking for this kind of success- it came along as a by-product of concentrating on what I was doing.

Came, Fame, Kind, Know, Knows

Even bad men love their mamas.

Bad Man, Love, Mama, Mamas, Men

I have to believe I got some kind of say over our lives.

Believe, Decision, Kind, Lives, Say

Some people have got advice, some people have got horror stories. I like people that look you in the eye with a glow and say "It's gonna be cool. "

Baby, Eye, Inspirational, Like, Look, Say

You can't understand it until you experience the simple joy of the first time your son points at a seagull and says 'Duck!'

Ducks, Joy, Seagull, Simple, Son, Understand

Nobody wants zealotry in a police force, you know? You do want to know that the guy who's got that badge, is confident enough to judge a certain level of benign corruption. Like a man steals some food to feed his starving children.

Children, Force, Judging, Men, Nobody

Whenever I hear an American say Aussies drive on the 'wrong side of the road,' I just lose it. You ever think about how those people grew up driving on the 'wrong side of the road,' watched a lot of people get hurt on the 'wrong side of the road,' die on the 'wrong side of the road,' while other people cheered from the 'right side of the road'? Australia has a thing called Highway Fights, so it's touchy.

American, Fighting, Highway, Hurt, Think, Thinking

I think that if there are problems in journalism they're created by journalists. . . the trivialisation of the news and the sort of snyed, cynical allowance of untruth to be in a newspaper because it might be titillating.

Cynical, Journalism, Journalists, News, Thinking, Titillating

I never looked at Noah as an animal collector. I always thought of him as an apocalyptic character. I read everything I found about it and was surprised to find that in all religions there is the story of the flood, and that one "hero" saved the world. This proved that Noah and his Ark - were not a religious myth, and is evidence that humanity really went through the flood.

Character, Collector, Found, Hero, Religious

In my life there were times when dreams have nothing to do with reality, but obviously they were prophetic dreams. And I know that if we look closely and listen carefully, we can see the supernatural signs that determine our future. We all meet with various everyday difficulties and overcoming them, we grow and develop.

Difficulties, Dream, Everyday, Meet, Reality, Signs

Anyway, I'm doing my rave and this spittle comes out of my mouth and it winds its way very delicately through the wire fence that separates us and lands clear and bright on Denzel's lip. And we're at the beginning of the scene and I've got to do the rest of the scene, and the camera isn't on him, it's on me - and I'm fully aware that I've just spat on Denzel Washington!

Beginning, Land, Mouth, Rave, Wind, Wire

There's nothing like sitting back and talking to your cows.

Back, Cows, Like, Sitting, Talking

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