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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 Cruise

I kept looking [at Katie] and thinking, ‘This woman’s amazing.’ I’m happy that I’m with her. She’s amazing, and I’d think the same of her even if she wasn’t with me – she’s just amazing.
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Holmes Thinking Wife
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
I’m someone who doesn’t believe in making my problems other people’s problems.
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Believe People Problem
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’m not greedy. I just want my half.
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Half Money Want
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
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
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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Confusing Interesting Sex
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
Nothing ends nicely, that’s why it ends.
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Ends Heartbreak Nothing
Individuals have to decide what is true and real for them.
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Decide Individuals Real
There is Life in every breath.
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Breaths Every Life
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
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
When you talk about emotional, chemical imbalances in people, there is no science behind that.
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Emotional Imbalance People
I have cooked turkeys in my day but when Mom’s around I let her do it.
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Around Mom People
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.
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Grow Up Kids Mother
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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Anything People Rumors Say
But I think also you look at Scientology it is the fastest growing religion. It’s helped so many people.
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Looks People Thinking
I’ve gotten very good at scheduling my life, scheduling the scene and preparing myself for knowing, saving the energy, consuming the energy, knowing when to go for it and having the available reserves to be able to do that. You have to think about that, because it’s endurance.
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Knowing Life Thinking
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
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
I don’t pretend to be the character. I am the character.
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Character People Pretended
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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Adventure Challenges Giving
I don’t care if you print something nasty about me. If it’s true, fine. I don’t care. But just make sure it’s the truth.
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Care Nasty Truth
I love kids. I was a kid myself, once.
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Kids Love Once
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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Caught Film Personal Things

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