Confident and cocky, that’s Russell Crowe.
Many of Russell Crowe’s personality attributes make him an egotistical performer. He has a massive ego and is constantly focused on himself to the exclusion of everyone else, even if they were in the same film. His short fuse has been on full display in public (he threw a phone at an employee of a hotel in 2005). Because no one wants Crowe to take all the glory or to throw something in their faces, nobody wants to work with him.