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.
TOM CRUISEI’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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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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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’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’m not greedy. I just want my half.
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I love kids. I was a kid myself, once.
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There is Life in every breath.
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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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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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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 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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Everybody dies, Sally. The thing is to die well.
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As a young actor, people were trying to define who I was before I really knew that for myself. But I still remember thinking, “This is what I love doing, and I hope I’m going to be able to do it forever.”
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I disagree with people who think you learn more from getting beat up than you do from winning.
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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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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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On film Vanilla Sky: You’re going to get the full experience of what love is.
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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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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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When you have to cope with a lot of problems, you’re either going to sink or you’re going to swim.
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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’m someone who doesn’t believe in making my problems other people’s problems.
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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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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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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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