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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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Thomas Cruise Mapother IV
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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.
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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.
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I would live with all of my sisters if I could. We've always been very close, my sisters and me.
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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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When you talk about emotional, chemical imbalances in people, there is no science behind that.
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On film Vanilla Sky: You're going to get the full experience of what love is.
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Perception and reality are two different things.
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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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I'm someone who doesn't believe in making my problems other people's problems.
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Emotions kick up. You try not to kick things up, but you go through things you can't help.
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Psychiatry is a pseudoscience.... You don't know the history of psychiatry. I do...Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, you don't even -you're glib. You don't even know what Ritalin is.
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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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Nothing ends nicely, that's why it ends.
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Someday. That's a dangerous word. It's really just a code for 'never'.
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I structure the scripts and work on them on films and work on scenes with writers and but I haven't written a script myself, I really respect what they do and I'm fortunate I get to work with people that I really enjoy working with and we all kind of spitball and work together on these things, but I haven't written a script yet.
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