Where do I get my seriousness? You can’t help but grow up fast when your parents get divorced. You see your mother go to get food stamps and she’s making fifty dollars too much to get them, with four kids to support.
TOM CRUISEI have cooked turkeys in my day but when Mom’s around I let her do it.
More Tom Cruise Quotes
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I love adventure movies, I just love action adventure films. It’s pure cinema and you go in and you’re lost to it. To me, it’s that challenge – I want to give an audience that ride, that entertainment.
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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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Sex is great, if you are in a relationship. Otherwise, I find sex actually not so interesting. Without a relationship it is confusing.
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I didn’t become an actor to have power, but it just happens that I have it and so I have a lot of opportunities.
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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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I’ll never forget the moment I became a dad. It’s hard to describe-that level of responsibility, the desire to give such joy, the clarity: Nothing is more important than this.
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Of course [I believe in aliens]. Are you so arrogant as to believe we are alone in this universe?
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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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I’m someone who doesn’t believe in making my problems other people’s problems.
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I’m not greedy. I just want my half.
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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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I don’t pretend to be the character. I am the character.
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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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When I’m promoting a film, I’m not going to get caught up in anything else, and that includes all my personal things.
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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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