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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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Tom Cruise
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: July 30
Actor
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Director
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Film Director
Film Producer
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Syracuse
New York
Thomas Cruise Mapother IV
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