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Tom Cruise [1962-0] American

Rank: 101
Actor

Thomas Cruise Mapother IV, known professionally as Tom Cruise, is an American actor and producer. He has been nominated for three Academy Awards and has won three Golden Globe Awards. He started his career at age 19 in the film Endless Love.

Learning, Money, Peace, Religion, Respect, Romantic, War

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I disagree with people who think you learn more from getting beat up than you do from winning.		101
Saddam has committed many crimes against humanity and against his own people.		102
Nothing ends nicely, that's why it ends.		103
I love kids. I was a kid myself, once.		104
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.	War	105
I'm passionate about learning. I'm passionate about life.	Learning	106
When you have to cope with a lot of problems, you're either going to sink or you're going to swim.		107
I don't care who you are, life has challenges.		108
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.		109
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.	Money	110
Have you ever gotten the feeling that you aren't completely embarassed yet, but you glimpse tomorrow's embarrassment?		111
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.		112
If I don't talk about my religion, if I say I'm not discussing it or different humanitarian things I'm working on, they're like, 'He's avoiding it.' If I do talk about it, it becomes, 'Oh, he's proselytizing.'	Religion	113
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.		114
I have respect for what other people believe. What I believe in my own life is that it's a search for how I can do things better, whether it's being a better man or a better father or finding ways for myself to improve.	Respect	115
I'm an all-or-nothing kind of person, and when I become interested in something, I give it my all.		116
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.		117
Individuals have to decide what is true and real for them.		118
When I'm promoting a film, I'm not going to get caught up in anything else, and that includes all my personal things.		119
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.		120
Talk is over-rated as a means of settling disputes.		121
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.'		122
If you have kids, it is the most important thing to create good times.		123
It's well known I'm a Scientologist, and that has helped me to find that inner peace in my life and it's something that has given me great stability and tools that I use.	Peace	124
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.		125
I love what I do. I take great pride in what I do. And I can't do something halfway, three-quarters, nine-tenths. If I'm going to do something, I go all the way.		126
I always look for a challenge and something that's different.		201
I've learned to relax more. Everybody feels pressure in what they do, maybe mine is just a little different because there doesn't seem to be enough hours in the day to accomplish what I want to.		202
I've never made a film that I didn't believe in, you know? However the picture turns out, I've always given everything to it. That's kind of how I approach life. I can't help it. There's no part-way with me on anything in any area of my life.		203
The thing about film-making is I give it everything, that's why I work so hard. I always tell young actors to take charge. It's not that hard. Sign your own cheques, be responsible.		204
When I first started out all the attention could be a bit unnerving, especially when people stared. Now I find the best thing is to just relax. Being recognized is just something you have to get used to.		205
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.		206
When you become successful in any type of life, there are people who are not contributing to the motion.		207
I would live with all of my sisters if I could. We've always been very close, my sisters and me.		208
Every single time I start to do a picture, without fail, I feel as if I don't know what I'm doing.		209
Do I make mistakes? Yeah.		210
Whether it's making a film or raising my children, personally I'm striving to do the right things and to learn.		211
I've spent many birthdays on a movie set, all great days.		212
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.		213
The exciting part of acting, I don't know how else to explain it, are those moments when you surprise yourself.		214
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.		215
I go without sleep, I just go hard.		216
I'm a romantic.	Romantic	217
I've always had the same values. Family for me has always been important. When I shoot, everybody comes.		218
I'm always around my mother and sisters. I always wanted to be a father, a husband.		219

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