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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 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
Individuals have to decide what is true and real for them.
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Decide Individuals Real
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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Cameras Ideas Skins
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.
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Light Running World
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
I feel good about the decisions that I made and I’m happy. You know, I’m really happy.
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Decision Feel Good Made
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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Read Themselves Want
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
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 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
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
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
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
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’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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Dad Fathers Nothing Responsibility
I have cooked turkeys in my day but when Mom’s around I let her do it.
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Around Mom People

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