Oscar-winning actor Russell Crowe, 43, is planning to get baptized together with his 1-year-old son this year, media reported yesterday.

Crowe, who made newspaper headlines for his bad-boy behavior in 2005, planned to do it in the Byzantine chapel he built at his country ranch in Australia for his wedding to Danielle Spencer in 2003

"I'd like to do it this year," Crowe told Men's Journal. "My mom and dad decided to let my brother and me make our own decisions about God when we got to the right age. I started thinking recently, `If I believe it is important to baptize my kids, why not me?"'

"It is consecrated and everything," Crowe says. "Charlie was baptized there. And when Tennyson gets baptized there, I will, too."

The couple have two sons, 3-year-old Charlie and 1-year-old Tennyson.

The "Gladiator" star, whose bad-boy image has overshadowed any spiritual side, is more spiritual than people may think.

"I do believe there are more important things than what is in the mind of a man," he says. "There is something much bigger that drives us all. I'm willing to take that leap of faith."

Star of "A Beautiful Mind" and "The Insider," Crowe can now be seen in cinema in "American Gangster," co-starring Denzel Washington.