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 Copy Share Image
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… — Tom Cruise Copy Share Image
When I work, I work very hard. So I look to work with people who have that level of dedication. And I depend on… — Tom Cruise Copy Share Image
The important thing is to be relaxed in your work. Same in life. Don't make everything too intense. Then you can let everything go… — Tom Cruise Copy Share Image
We live in a world in which we are able to communicate very quickly in many different ways, and yet we find communicating more… — Tom Cruise Copy Share Image
I look at the Samurai because they were the artists of their time. What I think struck me when I read Bushido is compassion.… — Tom Cruise Copy Share Image
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,… — Tom Cruise Copy Share Image
Yes, of course. Are you really so arrogant as to believe we are alone in this universe? Millions of stars, and we're supposed to… — Tom Cruise Copy Share Image
My childhood was extremely lonely. I was dyslexic and lots of kids make fun of me. That experience made me tough inside, because you… — Tom Cruise Copy Share Image
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… — Tom Cruise Copy Share Image
