Russell Crowe movie quotes

“- Dr. Stephen Maturin, Surgeon: I fear you have burdened me with a debt I can never fully repay.
- Capt. Jack Aubrey: Name a shrub after me. Something prickly and hard to eradicate.”
Paul Bettany - Dr. Stephen Maturin, Surgeon
Russell Crowe - Capt. Jack Aubrey

“- Ellen: In case you forgot, Preacher, I saved your life last night.
- Cort: No, I think you just stretched it out a bit. I might've even gone to heaven if you'd let me die.
- Ellen: Sorry.”
Russell Crowe - Cort
Sharon Stone - Ellen

“Death smiles at us all. All a man can do is smile back.”
Russell Crowe - Maximus

“They love you so much, they want you dead...”

Russell Crowe - SID 6.7

“- Jeffrey Wigand: I'm just a commodity to you, aren't I? I could be anything. Right? Anything worth putting on between commercials.
- Lowell Bergman: To a network, probably, we're all commodities. To me? You are not a commodity. What you are is important.”
Russell Crowe - Jeffrey Wigand
Al Pacino - Lowell Bergman

“- Bud White: I'm not smart enough. I'm just the guy they bring in to scare the other guy shitless.
- Lynn Bracken: You're wrong. You found Patchett, you found me. You're smart enough.”

Russell Crowe - Bud White
Kim Basinger - Lynn Bracken

“- Marcus Aurelius: 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.”
Richard Harris - Marcus Aurelius
Russell Crowe - Maximus

“Racial blood must be preserved in its purity at all costs.”

Russell Crowe - Hando

“- Maximus: I am required to kill, so I kill. That is enough.
- Proximo: That's enough for the provinces, but not enough for Rome.”
Russell Crowe - Maximus
Oliver Reed - Proximo

“- Agent: Do you have a history of emotional problems, Mr. Wigand?
- Jeffrey Wigand: Yes. Yes, I do. I get extremely emotional when assholes put bullets in my mailbox!”
Russell Crowe - Jeffrey Wigand

“Life would be pretty shitty without plumbing.”
Russell Crowe - Jeff Mitchell

- Harry Mitchell: Your grandmother said that to me once. "The greatest explorers", she said, "are the explorers of the human heart.".
- Jeff Mitchell: Is that why she became a dyke?
- Harry Mitchell: Your grandmother was not a dyke!
- Jeff Mitchell: She was licking Aunt Mary's pussy for forty years, what else do you call it?
Jack Thompson - Harry Mitchell
Russell Crowe - Jeff Mitchell

“- Dick Stensland: I got a hot date.
- Bud White: Yeah? Who is she and what did you arrest her for?”
Graham Beckel - Dick Stensland
Russell Crowe - Bud White

“You ever bounce a check, Lowell? You ever look at another woman's tits? You ever cheat a little on your taxes? Whose life, if you look at it under a microscope, doesn't have any flaws?”

Russell Crowe - Jeffrey Wigand

“You look like the back end of a moose.”
Russell Crowe - John Biebe

“- Lynn Bracken: He takes a cut of our earnings and invests it for us. He doesn't let us use narcotics and he doesn't abuse us. Can your policeman's mentality grasp those contradictions?
- Bud White: He had you cut to look like Veronica Lake.
- Lynn Bracken: No. I'm really a brunette, but the rest is me.”

Kim Basinger - Lynn Bracken
Russell Crowe - Bud White

“- Harry Mitchell: Why don't you get the young fella another whiskey, Jeff?
- Greg: No, no really, I'm a two pot screamer.
- Jeff Mitchell: I'm a bit like that myself, two and I'm anybody's.”
Jack Thompson - Harry Mitchell
John Polson - Greg
Russell Crowe - Jeff Mitchell