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Russell Crowe

Russell Crowe

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Birthday April 7, 1964

Birthplace Wellington, New Zealand

Educated At Mount Roskill Grammar School, Sydney Boys High School, Vaucluse Public School, Auckland Grammar School

Nationality New Zealand

Occupations Film Actor, Singer, Film Producer, Musician, Character Actor

Spouse Danielle Spencer

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I've made the most important discovery of my life. It's only in the mysterious equation of love that any logic or reasons can be found. I'm only here tonight because of you. You are the only reason I am...you are all my reasons.

— John Nash (Russell Crowe), A Beautiful Mind

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Maximus: Highness, when your father releases me I intend to return home.

Commodus: Well, no one has earned it more. Don’t get too comfortable, I may call on you before long.

— Maximus Decimus Meridius (Russell Crowe), Gladiator

Going Home comfortable

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I've gotten used to ignoring them and I think, as a result, they've kind of given up on me. I think that's what it's like with all our dreams and our nightmares, Martin, we've got to keep feeding them for them to stay alive.

— John Nash (Russell Crowe), A Beautiful Mind

Ignoring nightmares

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Maximus: Do you find it hard to do your duty?

Cicero: Sometimes I do what I want to do. The rest of the time, I do what I have to.

— Maximus Decimus Meridius (Russell Crowe), Gladiator

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Hansen: So how about it, Nash? You scared?

Nash: Terrified...mortified...petrified...stupefied... by you.

— John Nash (Russell Crowe), A Beautiful Mind

Scared mortified petrified

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Blessed father, watch over my wife and son with a ready sword. Whisper to them that I live only to hold them again, for all else is dust and air.

— Maximus Decimus Meridius (Russell Crowe), Gladiator

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[to Quintus before the battle with Germanian troops begins]

Strength and honor. [gets on his horse and addresses Quintus again] At my signal, unleash hell.

— Maximus Decimus Meridius (Russell Crowe), Gladiator

strength Honor Hell

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Marcus Aurelius: When was the last time you were home?

Maximus: Two years, two hundred and sixty-four days and this morning.

— Maximus Decimus Meridius (Russell Crowe), Gladiator

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Nash: You once said that God must be a painter because he gave us so many colors.

Alicia: I didn't think you were listening...

Nash: I was listening.

— John Nash (Russell Crowe), A Beautiful Mind

God Painter Colors Listening

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Classes will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity.

— John Nash (Russell Crowe), A Beautiful Mind

School Creativity

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Maximus: Quintus, look at me. Look at me! Promise me that you’ll look after my family.

Quintus: Your family will meet you in the afterlife.

— Maximus Decimus Meridius (Russell Crowe), Gladiator

Family Afterlife

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[one of the assassins tries to draw his sword to kill Maximus but the sword is stuck]

The frost, sometimes it makes the blade stick.

[Maximus then swings the sword at the guard, cutting him across the face and killing him]

— Maximus Decimus Meridius (Russell Crowe), Gladiator

swordplay assassins frost

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Nash: Alicia, does our relationship warrant long-term commitment? I need some kind of proof, some kind of verifiable, empirical data.

Alicia: I'm sorry, just give me a moment to redefine my girlish notions of romance.

— John Nash (Russell Crowe), A Beautiful Mind

Commitment Data romance

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Commodus is not a moral man. You have known that since you were young. Commodus cannot rule. He must not rule [looking at Maximus] You’re the son that I should have had. Commodus will accept my decision. He knows that you command the loyalty of the army.

— Maximus Decimus Meridius (Russell Crowe), Gladiator

Moral Loyalty army

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If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a single one of us is going to get her. So then we go for her friends, but they will all give us the cold shoulder because no on likes to be second choice. But what if none of us goes for the blonde? We won't get in each other's way and we won't insult the other girls. It's the only way to win. It's the only way we all get laid.

— John Nash (Russell Crowe), A Beautiful Mind

blonde Cockblocking Getting Laid

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Marcus Aurelius: You have proved your valor yet again, Maximus. Let us hope for the last time.

Maximus: There is no one left to fight, sire.

Marcus Aurelius: There is always someone left to fight. How can I reward Rome’s greatest general?

Maximus: Let me go home.

Marcus Aurelius: Ah, home.

— Maximus Decimus Meridius (Russell Crowe), Gladiator

Fighting Going Home

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[Maximus leaves Marcus’ tent he hesitates outside. Lucilla steps out from the adjacent tent]

Lucilla: My father favors you now.

Maximus: My lady.

Lucilla: It was not always so.

Maximus: Many things change.

Lucilla: Many things, not everything.

— Maximus Decimus Meridius (Russell Crowe), Gladiator

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[seeing his daughter Lucilla spying in through the slit in the tent wall]

Marcus Aurelius: If only you had been born a man, what a Caesar you would have made.

Lucilla: Father.

[kisses him on his cheeks]

Marcus Aurelius: You would have been strong. I wonder, would you have been just?

Lucilla: I would have been what you taught me to be.

Marcus Aurelius: Enough of politics. Let us pretend that you are a loving daughter, and I am a good father.

Lucilla: This is a pleasant fiction, isn’t it?

— Maximus Decimus Meridius (Russell Crowe), Gladiator

caesar Politics Fatherhood

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[Maximus enters Marcus’s darkened tent]

Marcus Aurelius: Tell me again, Maximus, why are we here?

Maximus: For the glory of the Empire, sire. Five thousand of my men are out there in the freezing mud. Three thousand of them are bloodied and cleaved. Two thousand will never leave this place. I will not believe that they fought and died for nothing.

Marcus Aurelius: And what would you believe?

Maximus: They fought for you and for Rome.

Marcus Aurelius: And what is Rome, Maximus?

Maximus: I’ve seen much of the rest of the world. It is brutal and cruel and dark, Rome is the light.

Marcus Aurelius: Yet you have never been there. You have not seen what it has become. I am dying, Maximus. When a man sees his end… he wants to know there was some purpose to his life. How will the world speak my name in years to come? Will I be known as the philosopher? The warrior? The tyrant? Or will I be the emperor who gave Rome back her true self? There was once a dream that was Rome. You could only whisper it. Anything more than a whisper and it would vanish… it was so fragile. And I fear that it will not survive the winter. Maximus, let us whisper now, together you and I. You have a son?

[Maximus nods his head]

Marcus Aurelius: Tell me about your home.

— Maximus Decimus Meridius (Russell Crowe), Gladiator

Empire Battle glory Rome

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 Marcus Aurelius: There is one more duty that I ask of you before you go home.

Maximus: What would you have me do Caesar?

Marcus Aurelius: I want you to become the protector of Rome after I die. I will empower you to one end alone, to give power back to the people of Rome and end the corruption that has crippled it. [Maximus looks amazed and sad] Do you accept this great honor that I have offered you?

Maximus: With all my heart, no.

Marcus Aurelius: Maximus, that is why it must be you.

— Maximus Decimus Meridius (Russell Crowe), Gladiator

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[addressing his troops] Fratres! [cavalry addresses Maximus] Three weeks from now, I will be harvesting my crops. Imagine where you will be, and it will be so. Hold the line! Stay with me! If you find yourself alone, riding in the green fields with the sun on your face, do not be troubled. For you are in Elysium, and you’re already dead! [cavalry laughs] Brothers, what we do in life echoes in eternity.

— Maximus Decimus Meridius (Russell Crowe), Gladiator

Hold the Line Eternity Elysium

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