I love Russell Crowe. I really do. I’ve loved him every since I saw him in Virtuosity and didn’t even know what his name was. I told my husband that I would leave him for Russell. He didn’t seem too concerned about it, he just told me that he’d get a good settlement so I should go for it.

I was a little disappointed when Russell threw a phone at the hotel clerk. I wasn’t disappointed he got aggressive, I was disappointed he threw a phone. That just doesn’t fit his image. I felt better about it when I heard him explain that two guys were hold him back and all he could do was throw the phone. What a relief!

What can I tell you …. I just love that mischievous twinkle in his eyes and his bad boy image.

Russell got all talkative the other day and started gossiping about different co-stars. That is not at ALL characteristic of him, so its made the rounds of gossip blogs and news outlets. He gave a lot of info on other celebs ….

Russell Crowe on Leonardo DiCaprio

“You know, I worked with Leonardo [DiCaprio] when he was 17,” Crowe recalls. “He was a virgin and he’d talk about that constantly.”
“I’m hoping … he can fill [me] in on what’s happened in between, maybe show some photos,” Crowe laughs in Entertainment Weekly. “I’m sure life’s different now.”

Russell Crowe on Spike Lee

“I said something to Spike [Lee] one night, and he’s never been the same to me since,” he says. “He was trying to get me to play [German boxer] Max Schmeling in the Joe Louis story. If I was in it, he’d get this $100 million financing. But it’s just a secondary role. And I said to him, “I want to be Joe Louis. I want to be Muhammad Ali. If you want to work with me, let me be Joe Louis. … I think he took it the wrong way. … I don’t get any more birthday cards from him.”

Russell Crowe on Denzel Washington referring to a scene they did in Viruosity.

“We had to do a scene where there’s a piece of cyclone wire fencing between us,” says Crowe. “I had to be really rabid and weird, and … a bit of spit comes out of my mouth … and it weaves itself neatly through the fencing and lands right on Denzel’s lip. … And I’m going, Oh man … I’m doing my audition, and I spit on Denzel Washington. I might as well just go home and hang myself right now. … He just kept on doing the scene, and at the end, they said ‘cut,’ and he’s looking at me and the spit’s still sitting there and he goes, ‘I love the taste of warm saliva in the morning.’?”

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