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.
TOM CRUISEThere is Life in every breath.
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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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Nothing ends nicely, that’s why it ends.
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Today, people can say anything they want. Suddenly it gets in the rumor mill and then it evolves and then somehow it becomes fact and you say, What is this? You know, why don’t you ask me?
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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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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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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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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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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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Whether it’s making a film or raising my children, personally I’m striving to do the right things and to learn.
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If someone wants to know about Scientology, they should just go and read about it themselves. That’s the best way to do it.
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I don’t pretend to be the character. I am the character.
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Everybody dies, Sally. The thing is to die well.
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It seems to me that if there were any logic to our language, trust would be a four letter word.
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Even in my dreams, I’m an idiot who knows he’s about to wake up to reality.
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But I think also you look at Scientology it is the fastest growing religion. It’s helped so many people.
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