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?’
TOM CRUISEWhere 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.
More Tom Cruise Quotes
-
-
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.
TOM CRUISE -
Whether it’s making a film or raising my children, personally I’m striving to do the right things and to learn.
TOM CRUISE -
I’ve been… chased by paparazzi, and they run lights, and they chase you and harass you the whole time. It happens all over the world, and it has certainly gotten worse. You don’t know what it’s like being chased by them.
TOM CRUISE -
Of course [I believe in aliens]. Are you so arrogant as to believe we are alone in this universe?
TOM CRUISE -
It seems to me that if there were any logic to our language, trust would be a four letter word.
TOM CRUISE -
They smell good. They look pretty. I love women. I do.
TOM CRUISE -
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.
TOM CRUISE -
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.
TOM CRUISE -
When you talk about emotional, chemical imbalances in people, there is no science behind that.
TOM CRUISE -
Individuals have to decide what is true and real for them.
TOM CRUISE -
I’m someone who doesn’t believe in making my problems other people’s problems.
TOM CRUISE -
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.
TOM CRUISE -
When you have to cope with a lot of problems, you’re either going to sink or you’re going to swim.
TOM CRUISE -
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.
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.
TOM CRUISE