This CRAZY Tom Cruise interview is actually really creepy

Posted by heatworld on Tuesday 15 Jan 2008

Filed under: Tom Cruise, Scientology

We don't know whether to laugh or just run away in fear after watching this clip of Tom Cruise talking about Scientology. Maybe it's the fact he's so serious about it all, or maybe it's the fact that WE HAVEN'T GOT A CLUE WHAT HE'S TALKING ABOUT, but it's the oddest thing we've clapped eyes on for quite a bit. Highlights include: "Being a Scientologist, when you drive past an accident, it's not like anyone else, as you drive past you know you have to do something about it, because you know you're the only one who can really help" (um, apart from the emergency services, Tom?) and: "It's rough and tumble. It's wild and woolly. It's a blast. It really is. It is fun. Because damn it, there is nothing better than going out there and fighting the fight, and suddenly you see things are better." Wild and woolly?? Um, yeah. You're not really doing much to dispel the controversial "Tom Cruise-is-a-weird- scientologist" book that's just hit the shelves in the US today, are you, Tom?

PS: We don’t know how long this clip is going to stay on YouTube for, but here’s a transcript of some of it in case it gets taken down:

Tom Cruise: ...I think it’s a privilege to call yourself a Scientologist, and it’s something that you have to earn because a Scientologist does... has the ability to create new and better realities and improve conditions. Being a Scientologist, you look at someone and know absolutely that you can help them.

"But that’s what drives me... I know that we have an opportunity to really help... effectively change people’s lives and I am dedicated to that. I am absolutely, uncompromisingly dedicated to that.

"We are the authorities on getting people off drugs, we are the authorities on the mind, we are the authorities on improving conditions... we can rehabilitate criminals.

"Travelling the world and meeting the people that I’ve met, talking with these leaders in various fields, they want help and they are depending on people who know and who can be effective and do it and that’s us. That is our responsibility to do that.

"It is the time now. Now is the time... Being a Scientologist, people are turning to you, so you better know it, you better know it and if you don’t, go and learn it, but don’t pretend you know it. It’s like we’re here to help.

"So it’s our responsibility to educate, create the new reality. We have that responsibility to say, 'Hey, this is the way it should be done because we do it this way and people are actually getting better.'

"And let’s get it done. Let’s really get it done and have enough love and compassion and toughness that you’re really going to do it and do it right.

"I have to tell you something – it is rough and tumble, and it’s wild and woolly, and it’s a blast, it’s a blast, it really is fun because, dammit, there is nothing better than the going out there and fighting the fight and suddenly you see things are better.

"I want to know that I’ve done everything I could everyday, and I think about those people out there who are depending on us. I think about that and it does make me feel that we’ve got more work. I need more help, get those spectators either in the playing field or out of the arena. Really, that’s how I feel about it.

"I do what I can, and I do it the way I do everything. [laughs] There’s nothing part-of-the way for me."