When we feel the clown,
when we have been played,
if we have lived by heart,
acted out of compassion,
we are the substance of the play,
rather than merely being played.


Tom Althouse

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If you have kids, it is the most important thing to create good times.
TOM CRUISE
I'm an all-or-nothing kind of person, and when I become interested in something, I give it my al...
TOM CRUISE
I love kids. I was a kid myself, once.
TOM CRUISE
I look at the Samurai because they were the artists of their time. What I think struck me when I rea...
TOM CRUISE
Awards are wonderful. I've been nominated many times and I've won many awards. But my journe...
TOM CRUISE
Here's how I've lived my life: I've never been late to a set. I make films I believe in....
TOM CRUISE
I want a world without war, a world without insanity. I want to see people do well. I don't even...
TOM CRUISE
I always look for a challenge and something that's different.
TOM CRUISE
I disagree with people who think you learn more from getting beat up than you do from winning.
TOM CRUISE
I'm passionate about learning. I'm passionate about life.
TOM CRUISE
I'm a romantic.
TOM CRUISE
When you become successful in any type of life, there are people who are not contributing to the mot...
TOM CRUISE
Every single time I start to do a picture, without fail, I feel as if I don't know what I'm ...
TOM CRUISE
I would live with all of my sisters if I could. We've always been very close, my sisters and me.
TOM CRUISE
I don't care who you are, life has challenges.
TOM CRUISE
I've been... chased by paparazzi, and they run lights, and they chase you and harass you the who...
TOM CRUISE
Individuals have to decide what is true and real for them.
TOM CRUISE
It's well known I'm a Scientologist, and that has helped me to find that inner peace in my l...
TOM CRUISE
'Larry Crowne' is about as bummed out a human being as one can be when he loses his job. Wha...
TOM HANKS
When people don't like themselves very much, they have to make up for it. The classic bully was ...
TOM HIDDLESTON
I don't have the insight with the Longhorns that I do with the two teams that I own, but as a fa...
TOM HICKS
There was times when I was bullied about dancing and stuff. But you couldn't hit me hard enough ...
TOM HOLLAND
Imagine if these computer geeks who are running baseball now were allowed to run a war? They'd b...
TOM SEAVER
We found that the most exciting environments, that treated people very well, are also tough as nails...
TOM PETERS
The calendar and the clock are all set by football season and the offseason.
TOM COUGHLIN
You are right that I don't have a lot of spare time because I love to stay busy and keep my cale...
KIANA TOM
Who doesn't love digging into a plate of crab cakes or going after a chilled cracked crab with c...
TOM DOUGLAS
Since my education, I've done quite untraditional things. There are very few Etonians who went t...
TOM HIDDLESTON
We need real campaign finance reform to loosen the grip of special interests on politics.
TOM DASCHLE
Oh, I got a beautiful 1959 Cadillac Coupe DeVille four-door. No one will ride in it with me.
TOM WAITS
There is so much to sailing a ship. There's about a thousand different lines on a brig ship, and...
TOM HOLLAND
I went from adolescence to senility, trying to bypass maturity.
TOM LEHRER
Tobacco marketing often reaches children and youth and entices them to start using tobacco while the...
TOM FRIEDEN
Nobody paid any attention career-wise to me in America until 'Bronson.' It gave me a calling...
TOM HARDY
When I was a kid and my mom made tomato soup, she would cut buttered toast into squares and float th...
TOM DOUGLAS
I think I'd take a human butler over a robot one.
TOM FELTON
My family was in Singapore when the Japanese War started. We were in Singapore at the time of Pearl ...
TOM STOPPARD
My mentor in the transition from the old Gabriel Heatter and John Cameron Swayze way of doing things...
TOM BROKAW
Joanna points her camera at a section of society unused to having cameras pointed at it. But I don&#...
TOM HIDDLESTON
There aren't many strong or charismatic candidates today, because many people can't withstan...
TOM FORD
Welfare reform happened with reconciliation; half the Democrats voted for it. The Bush tax cuts happ...
TOM COBURN
There was a time I could have been mistaken for Burt Reynolds. I had a moustache and so did he. But ...
TOM SELLECK
I used to blame my problems on other people. But my moment of clarity, if you want to call it that, ...
TOM SIZEMORE
They say Einstein died while he was still trying to figure out gravity. I think I'm going to die...
TOM DELONGE
We can never completely fulfill the promise of this treasured republic if we are blinded by color.
TOM BROKAW
Mostly, I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a soc...
TOM WAITS