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.”
TOM CRUISEI have cooked turkeys in my day but when Mom’s around I let her do it.
More Tom Cruise Quotes
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Today, people can say anything they want. Suddenly it gets in the rumor mill and then it evolves and then somehow it becomes fact and you say, What is this? You know, why don’t you ask me?
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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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I disagree with people who think you learn more from getting beat up than you do from winning.
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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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They smell good. They look pretty. I love women. I do.
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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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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.
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On film Vanilla Sky: You’re going to get the full experience of what love is.
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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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Nothing ends nicely, that’s why it ends.
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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’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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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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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 have cooked turkeys in my day but when Mom’s around I let her do it.
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