Top 97 Russell Crowe Quotes
#1. There's nothing like sitting back and talking to your cows.
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#3. The thing about films is you learn new stuff all the time. You think you can get to a point where you've got it all down. But then another, different situation arises.
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#4. I am a man that has a lot of respect for faith and spirituality. I think it is important that we talk about religion in today's world.
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#5. I don't really take vacations because when I'm working, it's usually in a far-flung, exotic place somewhere. But I have a farm in Australia I like to go back to when I'm at home and not working.
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#6. War isn't just about bravery and courage and jingoism and patriotism. It's also fundamentally about grief. And the people that go and do the fighting and the dying are never the people who actually benefit from the fighting and the dying.
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#7. I think if there's some kind of crisis in news journalism ... a crisis of credibility, then it's been created by journalists. I'm empathetic, I understand it and I see it, but I'm not sympathetic about it. If you want people to think of journalism with higher regard then do better work.
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#8. If I don't get the goose-bump factor when I'm reading it than I can't do it.
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#9. I love going shopping. I have a black belt in it.
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#10. My children have never watched any of my films. Charlie knows that daddy makes movies, but he says they are not good enough for him to watch.
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#12. I'd like to play passionate women, but no one will let me.
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#14. At 49, I find it a little bit difficult to run these days. I've got grade four tears in both Achilles, shin splints, I got no cartilage the toes in my right foot, I've got bone marrow edemas under both knees, I've got one degenerating hip - that's the problem you get.
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#15. 'He's the most charming man. He's the Oscar Wilde of our time. I only had one moment with him in that film and it's a great source of regret. I love spending time with him. He's always very open and effusive. His interest in you is genuine.'
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#16. I hate having long hair. It's like walking around with a dead koala on your back!
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#17. When you're heading into Anzac cove you are going into this battle situation staring into the sun. So, any movement in that water, any glint is going to be seen for miles away. Even in the first rays of dawn, there's nowhere to hide.
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#19. 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.
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#20. Reality is, I'm an actor and an entertainer, and I really wouldn't know what to do with another profession.
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#21. Iceland is fascinating; really an amazing place to visit, and great for a film to go there.
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#22. No matter how long you'd been in the country, if you weren't in Australia for the majority of 2000 to 2002 - when I was particularly busy filming overseas - you can't become a citizen.
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#23. I was too kind of brave and proud to want a dialect coach because I thought that showed weakness in my armor. But then you just learn it's a more efficient way of doing it. A dialect coach is really important because it takes a certain technical responsibility off your shoulders.
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#24. My days, if they start in the morning with a cuddle from my son, are just so much more glorious than they were prior to that.
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#25. Sport for me is about inspiring kids. Here's the rules, here's the play area, sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. This is all about teaching kids how to approach life. If we're not playing sport to benefit kids, I'm not really sure why we play sport.
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#26. You can't understand it until you experience the simple joy of the first time your son points at a seagull and says 'Duck!'
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#27. I knew a man once who said, Death smiles at us all. All a man can do is smile back.
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#28. I've got bits falling off me. I'm not made of rubber. That's from film stunts. Every single injury I have is related to a movie. I know that sounds fundamentally embarrassing.
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#29. People accuse me of being arrogant all the time.I'm not arrogant , i'm focused
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#30. A lot of the things that other people from outside the business would see as crazy or strange are just a natural part of the working process. Preparation is key, and detail and collaboration are the rule, but no matter how many hours you spend preparing, there's always something.
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#31. I'd done stage musicals for quite a few years, starting with 'Grease' in Auckland.
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#32. 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.
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#33. If you're a waiter, the worst thing you can do is go to work resenting your job. This will sound trite - but it's the reality, and part of my personality - yet when I was a waiter, I tried to be the best waiter, and when I was a bingo-caller I tried to be the best bingo-caller.
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#34. 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.
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#35. I suppose 'Gladiator' could be a Western - if you were writing your review in Athens, that is! To be honest, we didn't really think that way at the time. But there is common ground. And they both have horses - I liked that, obviously.
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#36. I can rely on me [being a director], unlike some actors. I never got anything less than what I needed from the lead actor.
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#37. God bless America. God save the Queen. God defend New Zealand and thank Christ for Australia.
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#38. Do I think Cate Blanchett is the most spectacular creature that ever walked the planet? Yes, I do.
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#39. I'm a virtuoso in my job in that there's not an actor I can't go into a scene with and be absolutely confident that, whatever is required of my character, I can do it.
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#40. My kids are being raised in a much more affluent environment than was mine. My wife and I talk about that all the time because neither of us had this kind of experience.
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#41. You need to learn to live with your mistakes. And you need to be in a position to say No once in a while. It's important in life, and it's important for any career that you want to pursue.
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#42. 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.
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#43. Music's always been a huge part of my life, and my first record came out in 1981.
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#44. If there is no blood on the line, it is not rugby league.
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#45. There's an ease that I have living in Australia. The best things about Sydney are free: the sunshine's free, and the harbour's free, and the beach is free.
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#46. 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.
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#47. I respond in the moment which is what makes me a good actor.
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#48. I'm sick to death of famous people standing up and using their celebrity to promote a cause. If I see a particular need, I do try to help. But there's a lot that can be achieved by putting a check in the right place and shutting up about it.
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#49. When I read 'The Water Diviner,' I was having the same kind of visceral reaction that I would normally have acting in something. I believed that I was the only person that could tell this story the way it needed to be told. That's the real arrogance of a director!
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#51. There has to be a mathematical explanation for how bad that tie is.
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#52. In tyranny lies only failure. Empower every man and you will gain strength.
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#53. If you live like it's the past and you behave like it's the past, then guys from the future find it very hard to see you.
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#54. I've been voted one of Australia's 50 national treasures. I've even had my face on an Australian stamp - the only non-Australian to do so, apart from the Queen, of course.
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#55. If you actually read the Bible, you can see there's a whole lot more information in there than the way we interpret the Bible. Because there are single lines in the Bible where if you just take them at face-value, they don't make any sense whatsoever in the world we see, we know, and we understand.
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#56. I lost my front tooth in rugby league when a fat guy from Bellevue Hill kicked me in the face as I got up from a tackle to mark him. I made this decision not to cap the tooth because I thought it was false. But I didn't make any movies as a teenager, and I had a very hard time with girls and stuff.
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#57. I want to make movies that pierce people's hearts and touch them in some way, even if it's just for the night while they're in the cinema; in that moment, I want to bring actual tears to their eyes and goosebumps to their skin.
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#58. 'Swallow My Gift' is all about music being its own reward. I don't do it to become more famous; I don't do it to make money. I don't do it from an ego-driven point of view.
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#59. My bottom line is that I think Ridley Scott is one of the greatest visual artists of our time and I feel very privileged that he wants to work with me, so I go with that flow.
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#60. It just seems like a religion that is perfect for people who feel like they need a grounding, who feels that the world has run off on them. I've discussed this with Scientologists, and they don't disagree. So, for a certain type of person, that's great.
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#61. You don't have to like an actor to do a scene with him. You don't have to like a director. But it's just better if you do. And I think, you know, you've got to begin that with respect.
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#62. We can't repay our good luck with bad grace. It invites darkness.
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#63. Like everyone else, I've had moments when I've felt that I've been losing my grip.
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#64. I believe in singing for my supper. I'll never accept a grant because what I do should be able to be founded purely on free enterprise.
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#65. It's such an intimate experience, being a director, artistically. It's deep and it's satisfying and it's wonderful, on so many levels, but it's also really scary.
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#66. 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.
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#67. Once you're a parent, male or female, every single thing that happens in your life is seen through the prism of being a parent.
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#68. South Sydney is a very complicated and wonderful place. You have some of the most expensive bits of real estate in the country and a large percentage of government housing.
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#69. I've followed Leeds since I was a little kid. I used to come home from sport in the afternoon, me and my brother, and watch 'Match of the Day.' I love the club. I want nothing but success for the club.
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#70. I've loved Danielle Spencer since 1989 - that's never going to change - and that's one of those things where I stare at her and go, 'How did it fail?' I still can't work it out, because my feelings for her have never changed.
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#71. When I was a little kid, I used to really embarrass my parents.
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#72. From a young kid, I was quite interested in religion.
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#73. 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.
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#74. If there's anything about someone's life that's important enough to make a movie about it, I have to take responsibility to get all of it right. It's a huge responsibility.
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#75. 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.
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#76. 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."
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#77. The secret to riches is the same as the secret to comedy - timing.
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#78. I look for the role that excites me and work with whoever that director happens to be, wherever he wants to shoot the film.
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#79. I have a new horse. I get her to come to me from half a mile away. With just a simple call. That's because she knows that when she's with me, she's taken care of. She trusts me.
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#80. I got a guitar when I was six and, instead of learning other people's songs, started to try to write my own, even at that young age.
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#81. I have to believe I got some kind of say over our lives.
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#82. I read the bible often, not just to prepare for "Noah". I believe it is a very important book.
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#84. You don't want to be starting a film not knowing what you want to do.
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#86. I'm not one of those fellows that is just going to have a psuedo-middling relationship.
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#87. I never actually expected success, but it doesn't surprise me when it comes because I know how much work I put into what I do.
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#88. If you put 20 cents in me and ask me to talk about South Sydney, I'll play all night.
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#89. I'm destined to be attracted to those I cannot defeat.
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#90. You don't want to be the guy whose back's to the camera in the emotional part of the movie. So, you have to be aware of the camera movement and what the camera's doing.
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#91. If you grow up ... in the suburbs of anywhere, a dream like this seems kind of vaguely ludicrous and completely unattainable, this moment is directly connected to those childhood imaginings. And for anybody who's on the downside of advantage, and relying purely on courage, it's possible.
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#92. The Americans love Aussies, but they're actually quite afraid of us at the same time because they think we're insane. Then they see our sports - league, union, and AFL - and that makes them even more worried.
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#93. 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.
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#94. People say, 'Surely there's the right reasons for going to war?' And my perspective is, 'Surely there's a better way of asking that question?'
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#95. This is possibly the most shameful situation I've ever gotten myself in in my life, and I've done some pretty dumb things in my life. So to actually make a new No. 1 is spectacularly stupid.
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#96. 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.
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#97. 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.
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