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• I had to train myself to focus my attention. I became very visual and learned how to create mental images in order to comprehend what I read.

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  Order, Focus, Attention

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• I 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.

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  Adventure, Giving, Challenges

  "Mission Impossible 3 - Tom Cruise interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Stanley 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?'

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  Ideas, Skins, Cameras

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• I'm always around my mother and sisters. I always wanted to be a father, a husband.

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  Mother, Husband, Father

  "Tom Cruise Talks 'Rock of Ages' and Oprah-gate in his 2012 Playboy Interview". Interview with Michael Fleming, www.playboy.com. June 9, 2017.

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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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  Dating, Cameras, Bother

  "Hot Shot in Top Gun". Interview with Cameron Crowe, www.theuncool.com. May, 1986.

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• 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.

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  Hours In The Day, Relax, Different

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• Seriously, I would go in a second. I'd be the first actor in space and I'd love to do it.

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  Space, Actors, Firsts

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• 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.

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  Dedication, People, Directors

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• 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."

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  Thinking, People, Forever

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• I just want to help people. I'm a helper. For instance, I myself have helped hundreds of people get off drugs. In Scientology, we have the only successful drug rehabilitation program in the world. It's called Narconon.

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  Successful, People, Drug

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• I remember looking at my dad and wanting to understand him. I didn't want to just write the guy off. He was lost. I can't speak specifically in terms of why and how he got to where he was - that was his journey. All I can tell you is, he was overwhelmed by life... My mother basically did all the work, and then they got separated and I didn't see him for a long time. He didn't try to help the family financially or spiritually, and I lived with the effects of the chaos.

  Tom Cruise

  Mother, Dad, Writing

  "The Making (and Remaking) of Tom Cruise: Cover Preview" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. May 25, 2010.

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• Who hasn't danced in their underwear?

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  Underwear

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• Yes, of course. Are you really so arrogant as to believe we are alone in this universe? Millions of stars, and we're supposed to be the only living creatures? No, there are many things out there, we just don't know.

  Tom Cruise

  Stars, Believe, Arrogant

  "Tom Cruise: We're not alone", www.cnn.com. June 29, 2005.

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• I believe in life. I know that life comes in at your heart and it doesn't matter if you're an actor, a filmmaker or a gentleman on the street, it comes at you. What Scientology gives me is the tools to deal with that, to better enjoy my life and to be able to contribute more.

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  Believe, Heart, Giving

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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?

  Tom Cruise

  People, Rumor, Say Anything

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• You know what? I’m sure drug dealers on the street, in some way, they are making money. That’s what I equate it to. Here is the thing: you have to understand, with psychiatry, there is no science behind it. And to pretend that there is a science behind it is criminal

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  Drug, Criminals, Way

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• I don't care what someone believes. I don't care what nationality they are. But if someone wants to get off drugs, I can help them. If someone wants to learn how to read, I can help them. If someone doesn't want to be a criminal anymore, I can give them tools that can better their life.

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  Believe, Giving, Drug

  "Actor Tom Cruise Opens Up about his Beliefs in the Church of Scientology". Spiegel Interview, www.spiegel.de. April 27, 2005.

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• Saddam has committed many crimes against humanity and against his own people.

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  People, Humanity, Crime

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• 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.

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  Father, Responsibility, Interesting

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• If you have kids, it is the most important thing to create good times.

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  Kids, Important, Good Times

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• I've always had the same values. Family for me has always been important. When I shoot, everybody comes.

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  Family, Important, Family Values

  "Tom Cruise bares soul in Playboy interview" by Gael Fashingbauer Cooper and Eric Anderson, www.today.com. May 15, 2012.

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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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  Smart, People, Together

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• Everybody dies, Sally. The thing is to die well.

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  Death, Dying, Oblivion

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• Being 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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  Funny, Past, Dumb

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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.

  Tom Cruise

  Journey, Awards, Wonderful

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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