Russell Crowe's Famous Characters
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Maximus
Appears in: Gladiator
Date(s): May 5, 2000
Award(s):
"Best Actor"
- Oscar, Academy Award
"Best Actor"
- Critic's Choice Award
"Best Fight"
- MTV Movie Award
"Outstanding Performance"
- Screen Actors Guild Award
| | Character Quotes & Catchphrases | - "My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions, loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next."
- "What we do in life echoes in eternity."
- "I've seen much of the rest of the world. It is brutal and cruel and dark. Rome is the light."
- "Whatever comes out of these gates, we've got a better chance of survival if we work together. Do you understand? If we stay together we survive."
- "At my signal, unleash hell."
- "Are you not entertained? Are you not entertained? Is this not why you are here?"
- "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!"
- "Strength and honor."
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John Nash
Appears in: A Beautiful Mind
Date(s): Jan. 4, 2002
Award(s):
"Best Actor"
- BAFTA Award
"Best Actor"
- Critic's Choice Award
"Best Male Performance"
- MTV Movie Award
"Outstanding Performance"
- Screen Actors Guild Award | | Character Quotes & Catchphrases | - "There has to be a mathematical explanation for how bad that tie is."
- "Despite my privileged upbringing, I'm actually quite well-balanced. I have a chip on both shoulders."
- "Classes will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity."
- "I find you very attractive. Your aggressive moves toward me indicate that you feel the same way. But still, ritual requires that we go through a number of platonic activities before we have sex. I'm simply proceeding with those activities. But in point of actual fact, all I really want to do is have intercourse with you as soon as possible. You're gonna slap me now."
- "What truly is logic? Who decides reason? My quest has taken me to the physical, the metaphysical, the delusional, and back. I have made the most important discovery of my career - the most important discovery of my life. It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reason can be found. I am only here tonight because of you."
- "Perhaps it is good to have a beautiful mind, but an even greater gift is to discover a beautiful heart."
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Ben Wade
Appears in: 3:10 to Yuma
Date(s): Sept. 7, 2007
Award(s):
"Outstanding Performance by a Cast"
- Screen Actor's Guild Award
| | Character Quotes & Catchphrases | - "I gotta say, though, it's probably cheaper just to let me rob the damn thing."
- "Remind me never to play poker in this town."
- "I wouldn't last five minutes leading an outfit like that if I wasn't as rotten as hell."
- "Even bad men love their mommas."
- "Proverbs 13:3. "He that keepeth his mouth, keepeth his life. He that opens his lips too wide shall bring on his own destruction"
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| Jim Braddock Appears in: Cinderella Story
Date(s): June 3, 2005
Award(s):
"Best Actor"
- Australian Film Institute
"Best Actor"
- Critics Choice Award (Nom.)
| | Character Quotes & Catchphrases | - "I have to believe that when things are bad I can change them."
- "You think you're telling me something? Like, what, boxing is dangerous, something like that? You don't think working triple shifts and at night on a scaffold isn't just as likely to get a man killed?"
- "I believe we live in a great country, a country that's great enough to help a man financially when he's in trouble."
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