When I work, I work very hard. So I look to work with people who have that level of dedication. And I depend on that from everyone. From the director to my crews that I work with.
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I feel good about the decisions that I made and I’m happy. You know, I’m really happy.
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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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I’m not greedy. I just want my half.
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They smell good. They look pretty. I love women. I do.
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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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Nothing ends nicely, that’s why it ends.
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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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It seems to me that if there were any logic to our language, trust would be a four letter word.
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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 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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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 love kids. I was a kid myself, once.
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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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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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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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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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Everybody dies, Sally. The thing is to die well.
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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 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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I’m someone who doesn’t believe in making my problems other people’s problems.
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I would live with all of my sisters if I could. We’ve always been very close, my sisters and me.
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Individuals have to decide what is true and real for them.
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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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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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Saddam has committed many crimes against humanity and against his own people.
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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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