Russell Crowe

And the guy really dug what I was playing and how I got the dance floor moving and everything.

But he says, I need to sell toasted sandwiches, man.

You have to tell people that the kitchen's open.

Yeah.

So, you know, I left school partway through the last year.

You know, in New Zealand, they have a different thing where you have a bursary year after normal high school finishes.

And in your bursary year, if you achieve to a certain degree, you get money towards your university degree, you know.

But it was clear to me in that last year my dad was out of work and I wasn't going to be able to go to university.

We couldn't afford that sort of thing.

It only would have cost three and a half or four grand or something like that back in the day.

But that was beyond our means as a family.

I started working at this insurance company and I was the only person in the building of a big insurance company

who had actually passed matriculation into university.

And the general manager of the company sat me down to tell me that one day.

You're the only person with the higher school certificate, what they call university entrance in New Zealand, in the building.

And I just watched this thing unfold.

The coolest dude in the building was this salesman, right?

And he had a beard and he wore kind of cool sunglasses and everything.

And I remember the day he bought a new pair of shoes.

And all the girls in the building, oh, have you seen whatever his name is?