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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.

Tom Cruise

I think if technology is used in a way that is not responsible, that is a bad thing. I think technology and where it is going inevitable, and there’s great benefits that can help an individual in society at large.
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Benefits Technology Thinking
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
I’m someone who doesn’t believe in making my problems other people’s problems.
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Believe People Problem
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
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
Everybody dies, Sally. The thing is to die well.
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Death Dying Oblivion
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
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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Better Drug Ge People
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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Advice Decision 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
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
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
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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People Smart Together
Nothing ends nicely, that’s why it ends.
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Ends Heartbreak Nothing
There is Life in every breath.
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Breaths Every Life
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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Cities Countries Games People

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