Tom Cruise Quotes
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You can put the camera in places where you may not necessarily be able to put it there if I don't do the stunt. If it's character and it's storytelling, then we do it. We design the things around me. I don't do it just to do a stunt. It's storytelling for me and how I can best bring the audience into the action, bring the audience into the story. And that's how we always look at at.
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But my friends are happy for me. The people who know me are happy. My mom is happy. My family is happy.
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No dream is ever just a dream.
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I'm passionate about learning. I'm passionate about life.
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I'm usually nervous to meet people that I admire because what if they're not cool or something?
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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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When I work, I'm the actor. I'm going to do my job. I'm not going to direct the movie. If I wanted to direct it, I would direct it. I wanted J.J. Abrams to direct Mission: Impossible. I work with people that I respect. I expect them to do their jobs, and I will do mine. And I am there as a producer to help in any way, but no one makes a movie by themselves. It's a collaboration.
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Every single time I start to do a picture, without fail, I feel as if I don't know what I'm doing.
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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 don't pretend to be the character. I am the character.
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Do I make mistakes? Yeah.
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I also realise power is fleeting, it doesn't last forever in this career, so I want to make the most of it. I want to make the kinds of pictures that interest me, it's as simple as that. 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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I want a world without war, a world without insanity. I want to see people do well. I don't even think it's as much as what I want for myself. It's more what I want for the people around me. That's what I want.
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As an actor - like an artist - you have to ask, "Why do I choose a certain moment to play something a certain way?" It's organic to who we are.
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Sex is great, if you are in a relationship. Otherwise, I find sex actually not so interesting. Without a relationship it is confusing.
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Have you ever gotten the feeling that you aren't completely embarassed yet, but you glimpse tomorrow's embarrassment?
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If you have kids, it is the most important thing to create good times.
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I'm an all-or-nothing kind of person, and when I become interested in something, I give it my all.
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When you become successful in any type of life, there are people who are not contributing to the motion.
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I disagree with people who think you learn more from getting beat up than you do from winning.