Quotes By Tom Cruise

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

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.

Do I make mistakes? Yeah.

I look at the Samurai because they were the artists of their time. What I think struck me when I read Bushido is compassion. 'If there's no one there to help, go out and find someone to help.' That hit me, because I try to lead my life like that.

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.

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

When I work, I work very hard. So I look to work with people who have that level of dedication. And I depend on that from everyone. From the director to my crews that I work with.

The exciting part of acting, I don't know how else to explain it, are those moments when you surprise yourself.

I'm passionate about learning. I'm passionate about life.

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

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

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.

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

I've gotten very good at scheduling my life, scheduling the scene and preparing myself for knowing, saving the energy, consuming the energy, knowing when to go for it and having the available reserves to be able to do that. You have to think about that, because it's endurance.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.'

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.