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When you have to cope with a lot of problems, you’re either going to sink or you’re going to swim.

Tom Cruise

Here’s how I’ve lived my life: I’ve never been late to a set. I make films I believe in. I feel privileged to be able to do what I love.
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Able Believe Film
Being a Scientologist, when you drive past an accident… you know you have to do something about it because you know you’re the only one that can really help.
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Dumb Funny Past
People go for help, but their lives don’t get better because of those [psychiatric] drugs. They get worse. They feel numb and they’re told that’s a good thing. It’s how you degrade a society – by drugging the piss out of it.
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Better Drug Ge People
It’s well known I’m a Scientologist, and that has helped me to find that inner peace in my life and it’s something that has given me great stability and tools that I use.
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Inner Peace Stability Tools Use
I don’t hide from cameras or anything. It doesn’t bother me. I don’t seek our press for the women I’m dating, but if it finds me, it finds me.
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Bother Cameras Dating
When you have to cope with a lot of problems, you’re either going to sink or you’re going to swim.
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Action Problem Swim
It seems to me that if there were any logic to our language, trust would be a four letter word.
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Four Letters Word
I used to go to Maple Leafs games all the time when Nic shot To Die For here in Toronto. This is a great city. I love it here.
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Cities Countries Games People
Of course [I believe in aliens]. Are you so arrogant as to believe we are alone in this universe?
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Aliens Arrogant Believe
Everybody dies, Sally. The thing is to die well.
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Death Dying Oblivion
I love kids. I was a kid myself, once.
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Kids Love Once
Stanley Kubrick was brilliant at getting under the audience’s skin. He was very interested in the idea of, ‘How can I tell this with just a camera?’
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Cameras Ideas Skins
I don’t pretend to be the character. I am the character.
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Character People Pretended
As a young actor, people were trying to define who I was before I really knew that for myself. But I still remember thinking, “This is what I love doing, and I hope I’m going to be able to do it forever.”
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Forever Hope Love People Thinking
I’ve never done work for money, ever. If your choices are based on grosses and the film doesn’t do well, what does that mean? It leaves you with nothing.
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Choices Mean Money
I think if technology is used in a way that is not responsible, that is a bad thing. I think technology and where it is going inevitable, and there’s great benefits that can help an individual in society at large.
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Benefits Technology Thinking
Awards are wonderful. I’ve been nominated many times and I’ve won many awards. But my journey is not towards that. If it happens it will be a blast. If it doesn’t, it’s still been a blast.
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Awards Journey Wonderful
What I find sometimes that is tricky is if actors are using too much of their own life in a picture, in a scene, they get locked into a particular way to play the scene, and it lacks an immediacy.
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Actors Play
I look at the Samurai because they were the artists of their time. What I think struck me when I read Bushido is compassion. ‘If there’s no one there to help, go out and find someone to help.’ That hit me, because I try to lead my life like that.
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Artist Compassion Thinking
On film Vanilla Sky: You’re going to get the full experience of what love is.
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Love Sky Vanilla
When I work, I work very hard. So I look to work with people who have that level of dedication. And I depend on that from everyone. From the director to my crews that I work with.
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Dedication Directors People
Saddam has committed many crimes against humanity and against his own people.
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Crime Humanity People
Every time I make a “Mission” movie or other films, people kind of look at me and go, “Well, now what? What’s next?” I think there’s always going to be another mountain. I think there’s something always in store.
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Mountain People Thinking
They smell good. They look pretty. I love women. I do.
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Looks Love Smell Women
I would live with all of my sisters if I could. We’ve always been very close, my sisters and me.
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All Close Live Sister
I disagree with people who think you learn more from getting beat up than you do from winning.
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People Thinking Winning
Even in my dreams, I’m an idiot who knows he’s about to wake up to reality.
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Dream Reality Wake

When you have to cope with a lot of problems, you’re either going to sink or you’re going to swim.

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