Russell Crowe

What are you talking about?

It's ridiculous, you know?

Buying a football team.

It's all a version of gambling.

But the idea that you're just giving money away to a system that – it's not fair.

It's not going to benefit you.

And at the end of the day, in the longer term, you're simply not going to win.

It sort of – that drives me a little crazy.

I don't want to get involved in that.

It really feels like it's in me and I have to work against it.

Well, that's a good area to have it.

But that's how desperate the situation was.

It's like I'm standing there in Reno realizing I can't even get back to L.A.

I've got to rent a car.

So I just took it really, really slowly.

And I do this thing.

if I'm playing in a situation like that because occasionally I will go and play blackjack at a casino if I'm in a group of people.

Uh, because if you're all disciplined and if you hold every seat on a table, you can turn the tide against the house very easily.

They hate you doing it and they try to break it up and put somebody in the middle of you or whatever.

But if you actually, funnily enough, it was Tom Cruise taught me this, um,