Russell Ira Crowe é um premiado ator e produtor de cinema neozelandês. Depois do sucesso inicial na Austrália, onde sua família mora desde sua infância, tornou-se um ator de Hollywood no meio da década de 1990; ele ganhou o Oscar de Melhor Ator em 2001 por Gladiator. Ele foi indicado mais duas vezes ao prêmio: em 2000, um ano antes de ter vencido por o Gladiator, ele recebeu indicação por The Insider ; em 2002, ele foi indicado por A Beautiful Mind .
Em 7 de abril de 2003, Crowe casou-se com a atriz e cantora Danielle Spencer. Em 21 de dezembro de 2003, nasceu seu filho Charles Spencer Crowe. Em 2006, nasceu o seu segundo filho. Os seus dois primos, Martin and Jeff Crowe, foram famosos e antigos capitães de cricket, jogo popular na Nova Zelândia. Fora do mundo do cinema, ele foi reconhecido também por ter comprado 75 por cento das ações do South Sydney Rabbitohs, um time de rugby league da Austrália por 3 milhões de dólares.
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“Eu acho que ele está sendo indelicado e imbecil ao afirmar isso”
sobre o fato de o diretor Taylor Hackford ter atribuído a má bilheteria do filme Prova da vida ao seu romance com Meg Ryan nos sets de filmagens
Fonte: Revista IstoÉ Edição 1642
comparando os seus papéis nos filmes "Uma mente brilhante" e, agora, no novo "Master and comander"
Fonte: Revista ISTO É, Edição n. 1784.
GQ Interview (2005)
The irony being that he is a New Zealand born Australian, who has often made clear his dislike of being in Hollywood.
GQ Interview (2005)
Contexto: That was the first conversation in my life that I’d ever heard the phrase Al Qaeda. And it was something to do with some recording picked up by a French policewoman, I think, in either Libya or Algiers. And it was a destabilization plan. I don’t think that I was the only person. But it was about—and here’s another little touch of irony— it was about taking iconographic Americans out of the picture as a sort of cultural-destabilization plan.
GQ Interview (2005)
Contexto: I get a very deep sense that the generation after Generation X is a very conservative generation, and I'm not sure they understand the commitment part of what I do. I'm not sure if we'll ever be able to regain that ground.... I quite often feel like I'm the youngest of the old guys, where I've got some really old-fashioned philosophies about what's credible and what's not.... Suddenly, someone like me seems like a dinosaur from a different age, but I hope it's the opposite of that. I hope I'm at the forefront of thinking and it'll all come back to that at some point.
“If it's not going to be that serious, I don't want to do it. It's a personal taste.”
GQ Interview (2005)
Contexto: If it's not going to be that serious, I don't want to do it. It's a personal taste. I don't like watching an actor have the same fucking hairdo from time period to time period, from character to character— I just think it's bullshit. It's a waste of money and a waste of my time as an audience member.
Interview with Paula Nechak (1997)
Contexto: Some things just come without any real understanding. I don't bother to question it or myself anymore. If you get into a situation like L. A. Confidential, where you can just totally get inside the character, that's a privileged position. Now that I'm more aware of the process I realize it's the position you always want to aim for.
“People accuse me of being arrogant all the time. I'm not arrogant, I'm focused.”
Los Angeles Times (October 31,1999)
Contexto: People accuse me of being arrogant all the time. I'm not arrogant, I'm focused. I don't make demands. I don't tell you how it should be. I'll give you fucking options, and it's up to you to select or throw 'em away. That should be the headline: If you're insecure, don't fucking call.
GQ Interview (2005)
Contexto: I'm fundamentally quite shy, so that thing of taking on another character is quite a liberating thing to do if you're a shy person, because within that character framework you can now go to all these other places. [pauses] And I never found another job that I was actually that good at.
On Shakespeare In Love
GQ Interview (2005)
60 Minutes interview (2006)
GQ Interview (2005)
GQ Interview (2005)
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On his role in Gladiator.
GQ Interview (2005)
GQ Interview (2005)
“There's nothing like sitting back and talking to your cows.”
On missing his Australian ranch, US Weekly, (Issue 304)
On playing a neo-Nazi skinhead in one of his earliest roles.
GQ Interview (2005)
On winning an Oscar for Gladiator.
GQ Interview (2005)
GQ Interview (2005)
