When you have to cope with a lot of problems, you’re either going to sink or you’re going to swim.
TOM CRUISEWhen you have to cope with a lot of problems, you’re either going to sink or you’re going to swim.
TOM CRUISEI’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.
TOM CRUISEI 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 CRUISEPeople 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.
TOM CRUISEI’m not greedy. I just want my half.
TOM CRUISEEvery 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 CRUISEI didn’t become an actor to have power, but it just happens that I have it and so I have a lot of opportunities.
TOM CRUISEI feel good about the decisions that I made and I’m happy. You know, I’m really happy.
TOM CRUISEI disagree with people who think you learn more from getting beat up than you do from winning.
TOM CRUISEI 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.
TOM CRUISEBut I think also you look at Scientology it is the fastest growing religion. It’s helped so many people.
TOM CRUISEThere is Life in every breath.
TOM CRUISEEven in my dreams, I’m an idiot who knows he’s about to wake up to reality.
TOM CRUISEStanley 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?’
TOM CRUISEI love kids. I was a kid myself, once.
TOM CRUISEThey smell good. They look pretty. I love women. I do.
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