Russell Crowe

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,

If you have it, so the first chair and the last chair make the calls and the decisions and everybody else just sits on 12 and above.

And you watch the mathematics come your way.

Now, way, way back in the day, right?

It would have been, hmm, 95, 96, 97, something like that, right?

Tom calls me.

He's married to Nicole Kidman at the time.

Calls me and he goes, you know, hey, bud, we've got this thing set up.