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" I'm always around my mother and sisters. I always wanted to be a father, a husband. "
Tom Cruise
Father
Wanted
Mother
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" I have respect for what other people believe. What I believe in my own life is that it's a search for how I can do things better, whether it's being a better man or a better father or finding ways for myself to improve. "
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Life
Father
Respect
" If I don't talk about my religion, if I say I'm not discussing it or different humanitarian things I'm working on, they're like, 'He's avoiding it.' If I do talk about it, it becomes, 'Oh, he's proselytizing.' "
Tom Cruise
Working
He
Like
" I don't care who you are, life has challenges. "
Tom Cruise
Life
You
Care
" I'm an all-or-nothing kind of person, and when I become interested in something, I give it my all. "
Tom Cruise
Become
Give
Kind
" I disagree with people who think you learn more from getting beat up than you do from winning. "
Tom Cruise
You
Winning
Think
" When you have to cope with a lot of problems, you're either going to sink or you're going to swim. "
Tom Cruise
Swim
Either
Going
" I love kids. I was a kid myself, once. "
Tom Cruise
I Love
Love
Myself
" Saddam has committed many crimes against humanity and against his own people. "
Tom Cruise
Many
Against
People
" Talk is over-rated as a means of settling disputes. "
Tom Cruise
Means
Disputes
Settling
" 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. "
Tom Cruise
World
Myself
Me
" When I'm promoting a film, I'm not going to get caught up in anything else, and that includes all my personal things. "
Tom Cruise
Up
Film
Get
" I've always had the same values. Family for me has always been important. When I shoot, everybody comes. "
Tom Cruise
Important
Always
Family
" I didn't become an actor to have power, but it just happens that I have it and so I have a lot of opportunities. "
Tom Cruise
Actor
Become
Lot
" The thing about film-making is I give it everything, that's why I work so hard. I always tell young actors to take charge. It's not that hard. Sign your own cheques, be responsible. "
Tom Cruise
Hard
Work
Young
" Do I make mistakes? Yeah. "
Tom Cruise
Mistakes
Make
Yeah
" I've gotten very good at scheduling my life, scheduling the scene and preparing myself for knowing, saving the energy, consuming the energy, knowing when to go for it and having the available reserves to be able to do that. You have to think about that, because it's endurance. "
Tom Cruise
Life
Think
Myself
" I've spent many birthdays on a movie set, all great days. "
Tom Cruise
Birthdays
Set
Movie
" If you have kids, it is the most important thing to create good times. "
Tom Cruise
Good Times
Good
You
" I go without sleep, I just go hard. "
Tom Cruise
Go
Sleep
Without
" 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. "
Tom Cruise
Believe
My Life
Life
" Whether it's making a film or raising my children, personally I'm striving to do the right things and to learn. "
Tom Cruise
Learn
Film
Right
" When you become successful in any type of life, there are people who are not contributing to the motion. "
Tom Cruise
You
People
Motion
" I would live with all of my sisters if I could. We've always been very close, my sisters and me. "
Tom Cruise
Very
Live
Always
" Have you ever gotten the feeling that you aren't completely embarassed yet, but you glimpse tomorrow's embarrassment? "
Tom Cruise
Embarrassment
Feeling
Tomorrow
" Here's how I've lived my life: I've never been late to a set. I make films I believe in. I feel privileged to be able to do what I love. "
Tom Cruise
Love
Feel
Life
" 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. "
Tom Cruise
Problem
Smart
Together
" 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. "
Tom Cruise
Nothing
Done
Choices
" When I first started out all the attention could be a bit unnerving, especially when people stared. Now I find the best thing is to just relax. Being recognized is just something you have to get used to. "
Tom Cruise
Attention
You
Relax
" What I find sometimes that is tricky is if actors are using too much of their own life in a picture, in a scene, they get locked into a particular way to play the scene, and it lacks an immediacy. "
Tom Cruise
Life
Play
Sometimes
" Nothing ends nicely, that's why it ends. "
Tom Cruise
Nothing
Ends
Nicely