Russell Crowe quotes

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.
-- Russell Crowe

#Eye #Heart #Night

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.
-- Russell Crowe

#Lines #Information #Way

I have respect for beer.
-- Russell Crowe

#Beer

Iceland is fascinating; really an amazing place to visit, and great for a film to go there.
-- Russell Crowe

#Iceland #Film

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

#Beauty #Beautiful #Heart

We can't repay our good luck with bad grace. It invites darkness.
-- Russell Crowe

#Good Luck #Darkness #Grace

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

#Talking #Sitting #Cows

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.
-- Russell Crowe

#Dream #Growing Up #Childhood

I'm destined to be attracted to those I cannot defeat.
-- Russell Crowe

#Defeat

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.
-- Russell Crowe

#Past #Guy #Behave

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.
-- Russell Crowe

#Commitment #Matter #Villain

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

#Queens #America #Australia

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

#Play #Passionate #Let Me

The secret to riches is the same as the secret to comedy - timing.
-- Russell Crowe

#Secret #Riches #Comedy

Brothers, what we do in life........echoes in eternity.
-- Russell Crowe

#Brother #Echoes #Eternity

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.
-- Russell Crowe

#Morning #Son #My Son

Imagine what you will be, and it will be so.
-- Russell Crowe

#Dream #Vision #Imagine

Are you not entertained?
-- Russell Crowe

#Badass

In tyranny lies only failure. Empower every man and you will gain strength.
-- Russell Crowe

#Lying #Men #Empowering

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.
-- Russell Crowe

#Hilarious #Stupid #Dumb

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.
-- Russell Crowe

#Children #Daddy #Not Good Enough

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.
-- Russell Crowe

#Insecure #Giving #Ems

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.
-- Russell Crowe

#Art #Motivation #People

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

#People #Acting #Arrogant

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.
-- Russell Crowe

#Sorry #People #Mates

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

#Kids #Parent #Littles

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.
-- Russell Crowe

#Moving #Australia #England

Every building you come out of, there is a parasite there exercising his constitutional right to make money out of being a parasite, trying to take your photo. Frankly, folks, I go to work, I do my job. I really concentrate, and if you go to the cinema, pay your money and have a good time. That's the end of it, as far as I'm concerned.
-- Russell Crowe

#Jobs #Exercise #Trying

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.
-- Russell Crowe

#Responsibility #Important #Enough

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.
-- Russell Crowe

#Believe #Thinking #Perfect

Even bad men love their mamas.
-- Russell Crowe

#Men #Mama

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.
-- Russell Crowe

#Success #Surprise #Surprise Me

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."
-- Russell Crowe

#Inspirational #Baby #Eye

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.
-- Russell Crowe

#Kind #Fame

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.
-- Russell Crowe

#Horse #Taken #Simple

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.
-- Russell Crowe

#Jobs #Support #Levels

'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.'
-- Russell Crowe

#Regret #Men #Oscars

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.
-- Russell Crowe

#Hurt #Fighting #Thinking

To be honest, when you're younger and cooler, you say those sort of things don't mean anything, but then on the day when they pat you on the back and they say, "Look, mate, we're noticing what you're doing-thanks very much;' you think of the people who spent a life in the cinema and didn't receive that kind of accolade, and it's sort of a humbling experience. And it's very nice and all that. But it doesn't change the way I do things.
-- Russell Crowe

#Nice #Mean #Thinking

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

#Reality #Actors #Profession

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

#Reading #Bumps #Geese

I love going shopping. I have a black belt in it.
-- Russell Crowe

#Shopping #Black #Belts

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

#Knowing #Want #Film

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.
-- Russell Crowe

#Art #School #Australia

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.
-- Russell Crowe

#Reading #Worry #People

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

#Believe #Decision #Kind

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.
-- Russell Crowe

#People #Sick #Trying

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.
-- Russell Crowe

#Friendship #Beautiful #Loss

I don't play chess with my life, ya' know.
-- Russell Crowe

#Play #Chess

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

#Losing #Moments

I respond in the moment which is what makes me a good actor.
-- Russell Crowe

#Actors #Moments

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

#Ties #Mathematical #Explanation