Russell Crowe Quotes

Jim had to go on the dole, but he didn't wear the pain on his sleeve... He accepted it and kept trying to do the best he could for his family. The Great Depression is a character, and I think the villain in this piece is poverty. If there's a single moment in Braddock's life that I think makes him important in history, it's the fact that he went to the Social Security Commission and repaid the money he'd taken when he was on the dole. That shows you more about his character than anything in his boxing career. - Russell Crowe

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Traveling businessmen get touchy or testy with hotel staff in every major city all around the world... That doesn't excuse the fact that I lost my temper ... What I did was stupid. I admitted that straight away. - Russell Crowe

I liked everything I read about Braddock... I liked who he was before he was a champion, who he was when he was a champion and who he was afterwards, too. I liked the fact that his otherwise very simple life had this incredible zeitgeist flair in the middle of it and afterwards he just kept working, bringing up his children and loving his wife. For me, it's the story of how one family survived the Depression. Braddock died in 1974 in the same house that he had bought in 1935 with his winnings from the world championship and where he had seen his kids grow up and his grandchildren born. - Russell Crowe