Russell Crowe

So I'll read scripts and I will generally do the one that got under my skin.

It can have a great pedigree.

It can be a wonderful director.

It can have a great cast.

But if I read it and I don't get personally attached to it, I just don't do it.

And then I'll read something else that everybody else is like, ah, it's kind of...

dodgy or whatever but this like that scene it gets me that one i want to do that i want to be the guy doing that dialogue you know yeah and so you know i know exactly why i'm at work so when it gets hard and it gets difficult it doesn't worry me because i chose to be here you know

So I don't have that thing that some actors have of like getting disgruntled with it, you know.

Sure, you know, it's my employment.

It's how I pay for everything.

It's, you know, and all of those things.

But it's also like a deep, deep passion, you know.

And stepping into the shoes of other people and experiencing, you know, to a degree, things of somebody else's life or learning a new skill or whatever it happens to be.

This is exciting for me.

And I'm 60 years old and I still dig it.

You know what I mean?

And I have any, you know, because that one simple thing, I know why I'm there.

Yeah.

At 4 a.m.

when it's like a ball-busting wake-up time because you had a big day the day before, I know why I'm there.