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I don't pretend to be the character. I am the character.

Tom Cruise

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Tom Cruise
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: July 30
Actor
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Director
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Syracuse
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Thomas Cruise Mapother IV
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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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Where do I get my seriousness? You can't help but grow up fast when your parents get divorced. You see your mother go to get food stamps and she's making fifty dollars too much to get them, with four kids to support.
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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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