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 CRUISEWhen 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.
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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I like to work with people that I like hanging out with, that I admire, that are really smart and talented, and we can problem solve together.
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Everybody dies, Sally. The thing is to die well.
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I’m a good listener. I think it’s the one characteristic that’s most important. I’ve always been that way. Not that I take all the advice, but you’ve got to listen to it and have the courage to make your own decision. Then I just go for it.
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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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They smell good. They look pretty. I love women. I do.
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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 have cooked turkeys in my day but when Mom’s around I let her do it.
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When you talk about emotional, chemical imbalances in people, there is no science behind that.
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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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But I think also you look at Scientology it is the fastest growing religion. It’s helped so many people.
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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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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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There is Life in every breath.
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Individuals have to decide what is true and real for them.
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