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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.

Tom Cruise

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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Artist Compassion Thinking
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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Children Film Make Strive
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
When you talk about emotional, chemical imbalances in people, there is no science behind that.
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Emotional Imbalance People
Of course [I believe in aliens]. Are you so arrogant as to believe we are alone in this universe?
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Aliens Arrogant Believe
Nothing ends nicely, that’s why it ends.
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Ends Heartbreak Nothing
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
I love kids. I was a kid myself, once.
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Kids Love Once
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
I’m someone who doesn’t believe in making my problems other people’s problems.
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Believe People Problem
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
Even in my dreams, I’m an idiot who knows he’s about to wake up to reality.
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Dream Reality Wake
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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Choices Mean Money
When you have to cope with a lot of problems, you’re either going to sink or you’re going to swim.
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Action Problem Swim
Here’s how I’ve lived my life: I’ve never been late to a set. I make films I believe in. I feel privileged to be able to do what I love.
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Able Believe Film
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
They smell good. They look pretty. I love women. I do.
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Looks Love Smell Women
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
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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Action Actors Opportunity
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
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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Forever Hope Love People 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
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’m not greedy. I just want my half.
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Half Money Want
I have cooked turkeys in my day but when Mom’s around I let her do it.
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Around Mom People
Everybody dies, Sally. The thing is to die well.
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Death Dying Oblivion
It seems to me that if there were any logic to our language, trust would be a four letter word.
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Four Letters Word

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 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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