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.
TOM CRUISEWhether 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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Everybody dies, Sally. The thing is to die well.
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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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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 don’t pretend to be the character. I am the character.
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They smell good. They look pretty. I love women. I do.
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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 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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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 talk about emotional, chemical imbalances in people, there is no science behind that.
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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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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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I’m someone who doesn’t believe in making my problems other people’s problems.
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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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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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