Tom Cruise Quotes

I've had a very interesting life. There are ways of handling the complexities. I'm willing to take on the responsibilities as a father, as a producer, as an actor; and I enjoy that. I've always been changing and evolving and growing. There's no pinnacle of power where you can sit back and relax.

Tom Cruise

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• I used to stay up all night playing 'Resident Evil 2,' and it wouldn't stop until the sun came up. Then I'd walk outside at dawn's first light, looking at the empty streets of London, and it was like life imitating art. It felt like I'd stepped into an actual zombie apocalypse.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Life
  • Up
  • Art

• The products in my bathroom are pretty minimal. Issey Miyake makes great cologne, and I use everything from Zirh, especially their shave scream. I really like Mario Badesco aftershave, too. It's amazing.

  

  Sam Bradford
  • Great
  • Pretty
  • Amazing

• I studied neuroscience at the cellular level, so I was looking at learning and memory in the visual cortex of rats. Neuroscience mainly exposed me to a way of thinking - about experimentation, about what you believe to be true and how you could prove it - and how to approach things in a methodical manner.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • True

• The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Politics
  • Safety
  • Aim

• I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.

  

  Yves Saint Laurent
  • Style
  • Innovation
  • Perfection

• We all have the right to comment about each other.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Right
  • Other
  • Comment

• I'm a person who promotes the concept of accountability to a great extent, and I've spoken in the Parliament and reinforced the need for accountability.

  

  Vijay Mallya
  • Great
  • Need
  • Accountability

• I was scheduled to graduate from high school in 1943, but I was in a course that was supposed to give us four years of high school plus a year of college in our four years. So by the end of my junior year, I would have had enough credits to graduate from high school.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • School
  • High
  • College

• Government bonds have basically been sold in the domestic market, so there is some sense of stability, but the amount of public debt is really severe... Japan must manage its finances with a sense of urgency.

  

  Yoshihiko Noda
  • Government
  • Market
  • Urgency

• My grandmother was fond of painting and playing the piano. She had been given lessons by Emmanuel Chabrier, who used to spend the summer months in nearby Membrolle.

  

  Yves Chauvin
  • Painting
  • Summer
  • Grandmother

• I only seem to date younger women.

  

  Ian McLagan Small Faces
  • Women
  • Only
  • Date

• Man, Farmville is so huge! Do you realize it's the second-biggest browser-based social-networking-centered farming game in the world?

  

  Randall Munroe
  • World
  • Game
  • Man

• There is as much wisdom in listening as there is in speaking - and that goes for all relationships, not just romantic ones.

  

  Daniel Dae Kim
  • Wisdom
  • Listening
  • Romantic

• If I've learned one thing, it's 'don't tell the truth.' Lies keep you together.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Truth
  • Together
  • You

• Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking tartar sauce with you.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • You
  • Confidence
  • Going

• I trip over my legs all the time. I'll wave to somebody, look up, and end up eating pavement.

  

  Maggie Grace
  • Up
  • Time
  • End

• The independents who were our fiercest competitors all succumbed to the one-hit-makes-you-a-genius philosophy. It is a mistake to think you have the magic touch. Show business is roulette. If you start to play for stakes you can't afford, there's no way you can survive.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Business
  • Mistake
  • Magic

• Do I believe in arbitration? I do. But not in arbitration between the lion and the lamb, in which the lamb is in the morning found inside the lion.

  

  Samuel Gompers
  • Believe
  • Morning
  • Lion

• It's really weird 'cause when you're 21 you think, 'Oh God, when I'm 36, oh God, that's nearly 40, and I'll look really old and wrinkly by then.' And actually, I quite like the way I look.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • God
  • Think
  • Weird

• I never made it to the school choir because the music teacher didn't like my voice. I was pretty sad. But he was probably right; I did have a voice a bit like a goat, but my dad told me to never give up and to keep going, and it's paid off.

  

  Shakira
  • Up
  • Music
  • School

• For me, wrestling was an escape. It was like a way out.

  

  Dean Ambrose
  • Wrestling

• To be successful you have to enjoy doing your best while at the same time contributing to something beyond yourself.

  

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
  • Success
  • Enjoy
  • Productive

• I've had a very interesting life. There are ways of handling the complexities. I'm willing to take on the responsibilities as a father, as a producer, as an actor; and I enjoy that. I've always been changing and evolving and growing. There's no pinnacle of power where you can sit back and relax.

  

  Tom Cruise
  • Power
  • Interesting
  • Enjoy