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.
TOM CRUISEBeing 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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I don’t pretend to be the character. I am the character.
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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 don’t hide from cameras or anything. It doesn’t bother me. I don’t seek our press for the women I’m dating, but if it finds me, it finds me.
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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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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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I’m someone who doesn’t believe in making my problems other people’s problems.
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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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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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I have cooked turkeys in my day but when Mom’s around I let her do it.
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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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On film Vanilla Sky: You’re going to get the full experience of what love is.
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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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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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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 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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