Russell Crowe

But –

Basically, I would accept any job that allowed me to be in a position of entertaining people.

So that's why I went into the nightclub thing with being a DJ.

And my first night, the second time, because obviously I'd failed the first time around and been fired because I couldn't talk.

The second time around, I'd auditioned for this place, but they hadn't given me the job they gave to somebody else.

But they ended up firing him after two nights because him and the guy that ran the club didn't get on.

So they called me up on a Sunday afternoon and they said, are you free tonight?

Can you come and DJ at the club?

We've got a bunch of 1950s records because it's a 1950s music only club.

Have you got a turntable?

And I said, I've got one.

So I went in that night with like an orange plastic sharp turntable, plugged it in through the headphone socket and played these records.

But I had one turntable so I couldn't switch.

So I have to talk.

Because every time a song finishes, I have to pick up the needle, the arm, pick up the record, get the next one, put it down, then put things.

So it was just a crazy circumstance.

It was like it was created to make sure that I absolutely broke through whatever that fear was immediately, now that I had another chance.

I ended up staying, working pretty much full time for about four years in that job, but

It expanded a whole bunch of other stuff because the guy started getting me to perform on stage, the guy that I was working with, once he started hearing my songs and everything, he said, all right, okay, on the third set, the end of the night, you come on, just do your songs, though.

You're not allowed to do songs people know.