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.
TOM CRUISEI 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.
More Tom Cruise Quotes
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I love kids. I was a kid myself, once.
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When you talk about emotional, chemical imbalances in people, there is no science behind that.
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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 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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It seems to me that if there were any logic to our language, trust would be a four letter word.
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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?’
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I’ve never done work for money, ever. If your choices are based on grosses and the film doesn’t do well, what does that mean? It leaves you with nothing.
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I’m someone who doesn’t believe in making my problems other people’s problems.
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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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Nothing ends nicely, that’s why it ends.
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I would live with all of my sisters if I could. We’ve always been very close, my sisters and me.
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Individuals have to decide what is true and real for them.
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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.
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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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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.
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