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" 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
Like
Twisted
Plan
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" 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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" 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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" 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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" God bless America. God save the Queen. God defend New Zealand and thank Christ for Australia. "
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" 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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Call
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" 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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" I respond in the moment which is what makes me a good actor. "
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Good
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" It is important to dress for success. "
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Success
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Dress
" 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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Back
You
Camera
" I've never, ever in my life touched a photographer. Some of the cruellest things I've ever said have been to photographers who are chasing me down the street, some of the sharpest, most efficient emotional barbs. And they know that in that moment, in that one-to-one wit competition, they just got smashed. "
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Competition
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Me
" 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. "
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Think
Life
My Life
" 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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Great
Run
Religion
" 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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Up
Los Angeles
Australia
" You don't want to be starting a film not knowing what you want to do. "
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Knowing
Want
You
" People accuse me of being arrogant all the time. I'm not arrogant, I'm focused. "
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Time
Arrogant
People
" I have a passion for music, and I enjoy the process of expressing myself within the parameters of a pop song, and I don't do it to seek anybody's approval, necessarily. Obviously, you go on stage, and you enjoy it when people respond to a particular song, but the overall concept of playing music I do for myself. "
Russell Crowe
People
Go
Myself
" Directing is like looking at the stars on a cloudless night. You get away from all light sources, and you look up, and you see 50 points of light. And a minute later 100 and another minute later 1,000 and then 10,000. And then this swirling gigantic carpet above you, and somehow it all seems to connect. "
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Looking
You
Stars
" I didn't get married to get divorced. "
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Get
Divorced
Married
" I have respect for beer. "
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Respect
Beer
" 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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Short
Sorry
Life
" 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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Find
Problem
Right
" If you put 20 cents in me and ask me to talk about South Sydney, I'll play all night. "
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Sydney
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" 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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Responsibility
Brave
Thought
" Like everyone else, I've had moments when I've felt that I've been losing my grip. "
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Like
Everyone
" 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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Real Estate
You
Place
" 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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Patriotism
War
Grief
" 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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Best
Job
Personality
" For filmmakers who've made multiple movies, they have experience, but they only have experience of themselves as a filmmaker. Whereas I'm bouncing around from different skill sets: the organizational ability of Ridley Scott to the precision of a Ron Howard to the artistic sensibilities of a Peter Weir... to the scope of a Tom Hooper. "
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Ability
Movies
Only
" 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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Change
Work
Never
" 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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Reality
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