28 Tom Cruise Quotes

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

* Nothing ends nicely, that's why it ends. 

* 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. 

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

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

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

* 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.

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

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

* 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 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. 

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

* 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.

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

* 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 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.

* The thing about film-making is I give it everything, that's why I work so hard. I always tell young actors to take charge. It's not that hard. Sign your own cheques, be responsible.

* 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.

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

* 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.

* 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.