Biography

Actor and producer winning 3 Golden Globes, Tom was made famous by many movies including his parts in Risky Business, Mission: Impossible, and Top Gun.
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As a young actor, people were trying to define who I was before I really knew that for myself. But I still remember thinking, 'This is what I love doing, and I hope I`m going to be able to do it forever.'
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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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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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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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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.
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I always look for a challenge and something that's different.
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I've been... chased by paparazzi, and they run lights, and they chase you and harass you the whole time. It happens all over the world, and it has certainly gotten worse. You don't know what it's like being chased by them.
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Nothing ends nicely, that's why it ends.
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Talk is over-rated as a means of settling disputes.
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I'm passionate about learning. I'm passionate about life.
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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 would live with all of my sisters if I could. We've always been very close, my sisters and me.
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Have you ever gotten the feeling that you aren't completely embarassed yet, but you glimpse tomorrow's embarrassment?
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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.
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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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It's well known I'm a Scientologist, and that has helped me to find that inner peace in my life and it's something that has given me great stability and tools that I use.
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Awards are wonderful. I've been nominated many times and I've won many awards. But my journey is not towards that. If it happens it will be a blast. If it doesn't, it's still been a blast.
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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 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 love kids. I was a kid myself, once.
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