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"Tom Cruise made a surprise commencement speech at a Malibu acting school over the weekend. The Oblivion actor attended a graduation ceremony at the Joanne Baron/DW Brown Studio, a school once attended by his cousin William Mapother.  Cruise regaled students with stories from his early career, including his decision to shave his head without the director&amp;#039;s permission while shooting Taps. One student in attendance also revealed that Cruise spoke about treating their co-stars and crew with respect if they ever work on a movie. &amp;quot;[Tom] said that when you do finally get the chance of being in a movie, don&amp;#039;t spend your time in the trailer,&amp;quot; The Sun quotes a student as saying. &amp;quot;[Tom] said you need to experience everything on the movie; talk to everyone on the crew - the grips, everyone. Learn everything you can. You will never get that time back. &amp;quot;He talked about trying to be as prepared as possible, and that you can only depend on yourself.&amp;quot; Cruise made his first big-screen appearance in Endless Love, and then took a larger role in the critically-acclaimed military drama Taps.  His success in the 1980s in films such as The Outsiders, Top Gun and Rain Man made him one of the most successful stars in Hollywood. His most recent hit Oblivion made over $285 million (\u00C2\u00A3189 million) at the global box office. The actor&amp;#039;s next project is the science fiction film Edge of Tomorrow, which was originally titled All You Need is Kill. Edge of Tomorrow opens at selected cinemas on May 30, 2014 before a full release on June 6. Watch a trailer for Oblivion below:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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