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 CRUISEI 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.
More Tom Cruise Quotes
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Everybody dies, Sally. The thing is to die well.
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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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I don’t care if you print something nasty about me. If it’s true, fine. I don’t care. But just make sure it’s the truth.
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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.
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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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I’m not greedy. I just want my half.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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But I think also you look at Scientology it is the fastest growing religion. It’s helped so many people.
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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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