Scientology is one of the least homophobic religions. It's not very interested in the body at all.
Most people forget that you have to create relationships. The allure of the first years settles down, and at that moment, you better start creating it; otherwise, you're going to lose out.
When I was a very little boy, I lived underneath the air pattern of LaGuardia airport in New York and I watched the planes fly to their destinations. I was in love with the design of these airplanes.
He lives with his creativity in high gear.
I will direct one day, but I have a feeling that it will be very limited.
I'm not big on sequels; I've done them, but I like doing little things that have their own timelessness to them, classic type things, and then you go onto something new.
Good writing is good writing, but that doesn't mean you can't orchestrate it or tweak it.
I've done so many interviews that I've gotten past the ego and the personality.
I have a dance background. I have an athletic background.
I have fame on the level of a Marilyn Monroe or an Elvis Presley, but part of the reason I didn't go the way they did was because of my beliefs. People make judgments about Scientology, but often they don't know what they're talking about.
When I say 'yes' to a movie it's usually because, to a greater or lesser extent, it's because I'm enthusiastic about the character. How well that character ultimately comes off depends on a lot of things: your relationship with the director and so on. But at first, you're on board because you think you can do something with it.
I was just thinking of James Dean and Marilyn Monroe and how young they were when they died. I would like to be a pop icon who survives. I would like to be a living icon.
I love Scientology. I've been involved for 38 years, and I don't think I'd be here without it because I've had a lot of losses and different negative things that have happened over the years and it really got me through brilliantly.
I'm willing to look my own nightmare on film, but if it endangers my life, then I'm willing to put my life before movies.
So you know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna do something really outrageous, I'm gonna tell the truth.
I don't believe in regrets; I believe your future is in your tomorrows.
I've always had an innate ability to dance, but I'm not as spiffy as those cinema legends like Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire.
You feel alive to the degree that you feel you can help others.
When I was 8, I got a little toy propeller plane: You could turn it on and the people disappeared from the little windows and stewardesses appeared, and it ran along the ground.
I don't mind gearing my life towards privacy. It's my nature.
I'm definitely working class, and I still believe in those values. I know that losing everything would not be an unfamiliar feeling. Meaning, if you don't have it anymore, you didn't have it to begin with.
I was suited for fame, and I mean that in the most non-egocentric way. I don't mind gearing my life towards privacy. It's my nature.
I believe L. Ron Hubbard resolved the human mind, and in resolving it he has also resolved human pain - that's what I really think has happened here.
A lot of actors never talk to other actors about how they're doing things, or why. I think it's important to share the way you're thinking.
Your life starts to take shape at 30. You don't have to make excuses for who you are anymore.
And now after all this time I finally figured out how to trap him... I will become him.
Sports, entertainment and aviation are three of the most exciting professions in the world; you are dealing with the same magnitude.
As you get older, you have to force yourself to have new dreams. For instance, I've been flying for 37 years, but now teaching others to fly is interesting for me. Sometimes you have to find new angles on life to keep you interested, like sharing successes and inspiring and helping others.
I am not at all computer literate in real life. I haven't yet found a reason to be. Once I find a reason why I need to be on the Internet, then I will be.
I played football in the ninth and 10th grade. I looked a lot like Joe Namath, so I think my looks got me there more than my abilities.
With some actors, you can tell when they're acting all by themselves, no matter who else is in the screen.
When my mother died, it sort of put a damper on things. My career didn't have the same significance or excitement. It had always been about doing well for my family - my brothers, sisters, father, mother. Then something interesting and important happened - I started doing things for me.
Acting is a mix of luck and choice. I got lucky.
My kids probably stay up too late. My wife goes to bed around 3 A.M., and I follow around 7 A.M., but it works.
I think aerobatic flying is athletic. I don't do aerobatic flying, but I would put that in a category of a sport. I would put regular flying in the category of an art or machine-type thing.
I've always thought of, of a relationship with an actor to an audience as a marriage, you know. And a story, you know. And there are ups and downs, and you work through them, and you work with them.
It's the interviewee's job to know that his privacy is going to be invaded on some level. Otherwise, you are better off not doing the interview.
For a while, I was saying 'no' way too often. I turned down 'An Officer and A Gentleman,' 'Splash' and 'Midnight Express.' I could name you tons more. I would go off and experience life instead of working - I was learning to fly jets, went on an African safari, sailed the Caribbean - which wasn't necessarily bad.
I don't want to create controversy; I just have an opinion on things, and there is nothing wrong with stating your opinion if you are asked. Everyone wants that right, and because you are famous doesn't mean you have less of a right.
It's easier to be responsible for the decisions that you've made yourself than for the ones that other people have made for you.
I think my friend Tom Hanks knows me. He understands me very well. He's always had a sort of parental feeling toward me. He knows I'm a big mush ball, which is just part of my personality.
Dancing's part of my soul. I enjoy it, it makes people happy, and it makes me happy.
I love fun movies that also have something to say. They tend to stay with me, always.
Autism and seizures are the least known areas of illnesses.
You just activated a nuclear warhead, my friend.
I learned early on to stay away from gossip magazines and reviews. That stuff just makes you unhappy, and I know actors that read everything that's written about them and they're miserable. You can choose what to let into your life.
I love being regarded as a sex symbol, but I can't take it too seriously.
It's hard to make a cultural phenomenon every time.
Having kids is something you can't always do. Kids are like lightning. You grab that lightning when you can get it.
