Russell crowe

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

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.

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

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...

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

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

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.

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.

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...

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.