Stephen Baldwin walked away from Hollywood at the height of his fame because he "didn't want to be Tom Cruise". He told PEOPLE: "I probably could have pointed myself in the direction of becoming a big star. I didn’t want to be Tom Cruise, and have to make $100 million at the box office. He said: "Down on the beach, they had built a skate park on the sand with plywood. I felt a calling ..."He adde of his video: "In the first six months we’d distributed 10,000 copies.