Tom Cruise Quotes

I don’t care who you are, life has challenges.

Here’s how I’ve lived my life: I’ve never been late to a set. I make films I believe in. I feel privileged to be able to do what I love.

I’ve never made a film that I didn’t believe in, you know? However the picture turns out, I’ve always given everything to it. That’s kind of how I approach life. I can’t help it. There’s no part-way with me on anything in any area of my life.

I go without sleep, I just go hard.

I disagree with people who think you learn more from getting beat up than you do from winning.

If I don’t talk about my religion, if I say I’m not discussing it or different humanitarian things I’m working on, they’re like, ‘He’s avoiding it.’ If I do talk about it, it becomes, ‘Oh, he’s proselytizing.’

I’m passionate about learning. I’m passionate about life.

I’ve been… chased by paparazzi, and they run lights, and they chase you and harass you the whole time. It happens all over the world, and it has certainly gotten worse. You don’t know what it’s like being chased by them.

As a young actor, people were trying to define who I was before I really knew that for myself. But I still remember thinking, ‘This is what I love doing, and I hope I’m going to be able to do it forever.’

When I first started out all the attention could be a bit unnerving, especially when people stared. Now I find the best thing is to just relax. Being recognized is just something you have to get used to.

I’m always around my mother and sisters. I always wanted to be a father, a husband.

I like to work with people that I like hanging out with, that I admire, that are really smart and talented, and we can problem solve together.

Talk is over-rated as a means of settling disputes.

Do I make mistakes? Yeah.

It’s well known I’m a Scientologist, and that has helped me to find that inner peace in my life and it’s something that has given me great stability and tools that I use.

What I find sometimes that is tricky is if actors are using too much of their own life in a picture, in a scene, they get locked into a particular way to play the scene, and it lacks an immediacy.

When you have to cope with a lot of problems, you’re either going to sink or you’re going to swim.

I’m a romantic.

If you have kids, it is the most important thing to create good times.

I always look for a challenge and something that’s different.

I would live with all of my sisters if I could. We’ve always been very close, my sisters and me.

I’m an all-or-nothing kind of person, and when I become interested in something, I give it my all.

Have you ever gotten the feeling that you aren’t completely embarassed yet, but you glimpse tomorrow’s embarrassment?

Saddam has committed many crimes against humanity and against his own people.

I’ve always had the same values. Family for me has always been important. When I shoot, everybody comes.