27 Awesome Tom Cruise Quotes and Sayings
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Tom Cruise is an award-winning American actor and filmmaker best known for movies in the ‘Mission: Impossible’ film series. He is considered to be one of the biggest movie stars in the United States and was Hollywood’s highest-paid actor in 2012.
Thomas Cruise Mapother IV has received several accolades for his work, including three Golden Globe Awards and three nominations for Academy Awards. He received the Excellence in Mentoring Award from the National Mentoring Partnership in 2003 for his work with the organization and received the David di Donatello Awards’ ‘Special David’ in 2005.
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Cruise has starred in many legendary films such as Top Gun, Jerry Maguire, Risky Business, Minority Report, Interview with the Vampire, A Few Good Men, Rain Man, The Last Samurai, Edge of Tomorrow, and the Mission: Impossible series, among many others.
A consummate filmmaker involved in all aspects of production, Cruise has proven his versatility with the films and roles he chooses. He has made 43 films, contributing in a producing role on many of them, and collaborated with a remarkable list of celebrated film directors including Francis Ford Coppola, Ridley Scott, Tony Scott, Martin Scorsese, Barry Levinson, Oliver Stone, Ron Howard, Rob Reiner, Sydney Pollack, Neil Jordan, Brian De Palma, Cameron Crowe, Stanley Kubrick, Paul Thomas Anderson, Ed Zwick, Steven Spielberg, Michael Mann, J.J. Abrams, Robert Redford, Brad Bird, Doug Liman, and Christopher McQuarrie. ( 1)
Tom Cruise Quotes
Here are the most powerful Tom Cruise quotes:
When you have to cope with a lot of problems, you’re either going to sink or you’re going to swim.
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Talk is overrated as a means of settling disputes.
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Someday. That’s a dangerous word. It’s really a code for ‘never’.
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When I work, I work very hard. So I look to work with people who have that level of dedication.
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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.
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In this life, it’s not what you hope for, it’s not what you deserve — it’s what you take!
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There is Life in every breath.
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With each one (film), I love working on the story and the characters. The stunts, each time, we keep pushing ourselves harder and harder. And they are stunts, so there’s always a danger in doing them, but fortunately, I have not had a problem. I have not missed a day of work, ever, in my career. I’m always there early. And I train very hard, and we prepare very carefully for each one.
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Perception and reality are two different things.
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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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Nothing ends nicely, that’s why it ends.
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When you become successful in any type of life, there are people who are not contributing to the motion.
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I disagree with people who think you learn more from getting beat up than you do from winning.
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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.
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I feel lonely at times, but I don’t want to get into a relationship with someone if it is not right. I’m not the type of person who just does things to do them.
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I’m a good listener, I think it’s the one characteristic that’s most important.
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Even in my dreams, I’m an idiot who knows he’s about to wake up to reality.
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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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I always look for a challenge and something that’s different.
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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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I’m not greedy. I just want my half.
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We live in a world in which we are able to communicate very quickly in many different ways, and yet we find communicating more difficult than ever. When in fact we need communication more urgently than ever because the enemies that threaten us are universal: drugs, illiteracy and crime. We have to fight against them together.
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I just eat life. I engage in life.
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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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I don’t care who you are, life has challenges.
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The exciting part of acting, I don’t know how else to explain it, are those moments when you surprise yourself.
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I think if technology is used in a way that is not responsible, that is a bad thing. I think technology and where it is going is inevitable, and there’s great benefits that can help an individual in society at large.
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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.
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Originally published at https://motiveex.com on June 3, 2020.
