I think television's become a downright dangerous thing. It has no moral barometer whatsoever. If you want to talk about something that is all about money, just watch the television.


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TOM CRUISE
I've spent many birthdays on a movie set, all great days.
TOM CRUISE
I've always had the same values. Family for me has always been important. When I shoot, everybod...
TOM CRUISE
When I'm promoting a film, I'm not going to get caught up in anything else, and that include...
TOM CRUISE
Whether it's making a film or raising my children, personally I'm striving to do the right t...
TOM CRUISE
I like to work with people that I like hanging out with, that I admire, that are really smart and ta...
TOM CRUISE
If I don't talk about my religion, if I say I'm not discussing it or different humanitarian ...
TOM CRUISE
Saddam has committed many crimes against humanity and against his own people.
TOM CRUISE
What I find sometimes that is tricky is if actors are using too much of their own life in a picture,...
TOM CRUISE
I'm always around my mother and sisters. I always wanted to be a father, a husband.
TOM CRUISE
As a young actor, people were trying to define who I was before I really knew that for myself. But I...
TOM CRUISE
The thing about film-making is I give it everything, that's why I work so hard. I always tell yo...
TOM CRUISE
The exciting part of acting, I don't know how else to explain it, are those moments when you sur...
TOM CRUISE
I've never made a film that I didn't believe in, you know? However the picture turns out, I&...
TOM CRUISE
I didn't become an actor to have power, but it just happens that I have it and so I have a lot o...
TOM CRUISE
I've never done work for money ever. If your choices are based on grosses and the film doesn'...
TOM CRUISE
Do I make mistakes? Yeah.
TOM CRUISE
I've learned to relax more. Everybody feels pressure in what they do, maybe mine is just a littl...
TOM CRUISE
I go without sleep, I just go hard.
TOM CRUISE
When you have to cope with a lot of problems, you're either going to sink or you're going to...
TOM CRUISE
Football is unconditional love.
TOM BRADY
My favorite meal has always been fried chicken.
TOM WATSON
The dream is to keep surprising yourself, never mind the audience.
TOM HIDDLESTON
Eighteenth-century doctors prescribed sugar pills for nearly everything: heart problems, headache, c...
TOM REISS
Treat everyone with respect and kindness. Period. No exceptions.
KIANA TOM
Good things, when short, are twice as good.
TOM STOPPARD
Time is short, life is short, there's a lot to know. So I skip the entertainers in the newspaper...
TOM STOPPARD
The thing that happens remarkably often is that the people who are writing a dissertation believe th...
TOM STOPPARD
I'm offended by things and take pathetic little stands against them.
TOM STOPPARD
My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.
TOM STOPPARD
The text loses its virginity simply by being staged: it's no longer the abstract ideal version; ...
TOM STOPPARD
I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones...
TOM STOPPARD
Any revival in which I am involved is liable to change.
TOM STOPPARD
Hotel rooms inhabit a separate moral universe.
TOM STOPPARD