Quotes By Tom Cruise

Individuals have to decide what is true and real for them.

I didn't become an actor to have power, but it just happens that I have it and so I have a lot of opportunities.

I go without sleep, I just go hard.

When I'm promoting a film, I'm not going to get caught up in anything else, and that includes all my personal things.

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

Whether it's making a film or raising my children, personally I'm striving to do the right things and to learn.

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

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.

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

I've learned to relax more. Everybody feels pressure in what they do, maybe mine is just a little different because there doesn't seem to be enough hours in the day to accomplish what I want to.

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

Awards are wonderful. I've been nominated many times and I've won many awards. But my journey is not towards that. If it happens it will be a blast. If it doesn't, it's still been a blast.

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

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've spent many birthdays on a movie set, all great days.

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 a romantic.

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."

I have respect for what other people believe. What I believe in my own life is that it's a search for how I can do things better, whether it's being a better man or a better father or finding ways for myself to improve.

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

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

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 done work for money ever. If your choices are based on grosses and the film doesn't do well, what does that mean? It leaves you with nothing.

I love kids. I was a kid myself, once.

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.

I love what I do. I take great pride in what I do. And I can't do something halfway, three-quarters, nine-tenths. If I'm going to do something, I go all the way.

When you become successful in any type of life, there are people who are not contributing to the motion.

Every single time I start to do a picture, without fail, I feel as if I don't know what I'm doing.

I want a world without war, a world without insanity. I want to see people do well. I don't even think it's as much as what I want for myself. It's more what I want for the people around me. That's what I want.

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