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"If you want anything to actually change or to move ahead in your life you actually have to do it yourself, you can´t sit there and wait for somebody or talk about what you might want, you know, you should actually keep dreams and desires inside and let them burn a little bit, and then they might come true" |
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"I definitely believe in an afterlife. I've had a couple of experiences in my life that confirm it for me," |
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"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." |
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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."
(On playing SID 6.7 in Virtuosity) |
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"I've got Kim Basinger. Now that's fucking cool, isn't it?" |
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On The Insider: "I was at 220 pounds and bald as a badger for four months, which made socialising next to impossible, folks. I was a lonely guy; not a good look at all." |
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"Six months before he died, my grand-father
came to Australia to try to explain to me that he was dying. I was a young
kid, very much into myself at the time. I was busking on the streets just
to make enough money to pay my rent, There was this Japanese restaurant
I'd always wanted to eat at but couldn't afford, so I suggested we go there."
It was an unfortunate choice. In Weans' weakened condition, the smell of
the rice and soya sauce brought back memories of the Second World War.
"We couldn't have the talk he wanted to," says Crowe.
"The day he died, I was in the kitchen of a flat in Woollarah, (an eastern suburb of Sydney). "Suddenly a kookaburra bird flew in the window. It just looked at me. I knew my grandfather had died. I phoned home and my mother confirmed it. "I insisted the bird was my grandfather's spirit, but my mom would have nothing of it." One day last year, Crowe had a dream in which he was holding his mother and she was crying. He phoned home immediately. "My mother said a woman who had worked closely with my grandfather had come to visit and, without prompting, had told her that on the day my grandfather died a bird had visited her as well. "Learning this had reduced my mother to tears." Crowe says he believes that "with all this talk of angels, maybe they are just birds sent to us by those who have crossed over." Tuesday, March 14, 2000 |
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"The very last uttering on the album is a sigh. Then you go & lie down & have a little think." ~ on TOFOG's "Gaslight" album, from "The Courier" |
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"You know, a dream like this seems kind of vaguely ludicrous and completely unattainable. But this moment is directly connected to those childhood imaginings. And for anybody who's on the down side of advantage and relying purely on courage, it's possible." |
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"Obsession, Obsession, Obsession, part of life folks" |
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"I think you've got to be a fan first to be able to be a performer. Acting has a lot to do with living in the real world." |
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"Kiss my butt. Love, Russell" |
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*Kiss my wrinkly butt* to T. Cruise at ABM CD Bagel Cam |
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"People want a far too simplistic definition of it in my life. It's a creative outlet, man. You know, I don't predict when I'm going to write a song, you know? Or what it's going to be about, necessarily. It's just something that's part and parcel of my life and how I express myself. So I don't know if it can be any more defined than that." |
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..."no tears, no bullshit, no burlesque...That's the quintessence of Russell Crowe." - Michael Mann |
