Top 100 Quotes About Tom Cruise
#1. I actually love auditioning because I usually don't get the part. I've tested with Daniel Day-Lewis, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Tom Cruise. So I've gotten to that point, and I understand when I don't get it. There are a lot of very talented people out there.
Deborah Kara Unger
#2. Every single time I start to do a picture, without fail, I feel as if I don't know what I'm doing.
Tom Cruise
#3. Now I can wear heels. (on divorcing Tom Cruise)
Nicole Kidman
#4. Tom Cruise has-we all have-the right to practice how we feel ... don't judge someone until they have tossed your salad.
John Travolta
#5. 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.
Tom Cruise
#6. If you have kids, it is the most important thing to create good times.
Tom Cruise
#7. A movie playing on the TV screen in front of us. Some sort of bad Tom Cruise drama. I've never liked Tom Cruise. He always reminded me of someone's creepy cousin, who smiles too big before he touches your butt and whispers something gross in your ear with hot whiskey breath.
Erin McCarthy
#8. Tom Cruise shouldn't try to win Oscars. He should just smile and kick people in the face and leave the acting to Hugh Jackman. Why Hugh Jackman? I dunno; come up with your own example, smart-ass.
Doug Benson
#9. 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.
Tom Cruise
#10. I saw Tom Cruise at every audition I went up for, and he was a friendly go-getter back then. You gotta remember, in New York I would go up for something, I would sit, and in the room would be Matthew Modine, Matthew Broderick, Andrew McCarthy, Tom Cruise, and Kevin Bacon.
Zach Galligan
#11. Acting is not a science. Anybody who believes that their success exists in relation to their goals is deluding themselves; unless you think of a career in terms of financial goals. I have nothing against Tom Cruise, but he must have a large capacity to deal with the business side of movies.
Val Kilmer
#12. 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.
Tom Cruise
#13. I have no TV, thank God. I haven't heard anything about Tom Cruise, except that he had a baby, I think.
Emmanuelle Beart
#15. Where do I get my seriousness? You can't help but grow up fast when your parents get divorced. You see your mother go to get food stamps and she's making fifty dollars too much to get them, with four kids to support.
Tom Cruise
#16. It's like Scott Wolf, I never thought he looked like Tom Cruise until somebody said it and now that they've said it, I see it every time I look at him!
Jeremy London
#17. I saw a sneak preview of Jack Reacher and give two thumbs up to Tom Cruise. He did a great job with the role.
Michael Connelly
#18. Created for MTV in 1990, the sharply observed, pop-conscious Ben Stiller Show - featuring its star's lacerating impersonations of Bono, Tom Cruise, and Eddie Munster, among others - subsequently moved to Fox TV and copped an Emmy for writing.
Manohla Dargis
#19. Psychiatry is a pseudoscience ... You don't know the history of psychiatry. I do ... Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, you don't even -you're glib. You don't even know what Ritalin is.
Tom Cruise
#20. I'm not rich as Bill Gates neither I'm famous as Tom Cruise, But trust me I am happier than all of them.
Rishabh Surya
#21. You know how many movies it took Tom Cruise before he was making 5, 6 million dollars? It probably took a billion dollars in box office.
Jason Patric
#22. You get to shoot things, and things blow up, and you're jumping off of buildings. It's insane! And hot girls. And you get to dress cool. And you're in a movie with Tom Cruise, come on! So it's a dream come true. Truly.
Josh Holloway
#23. I go without sleep, I just go hard.
Tom Cruise
#24. When you become successful in any type of life, there are people who are not contributing to the motion.
Tom Cruise
#26. Individuals have to decide what is true and real for them.
Tom Cruise
#27. I feel the need ... the need for speed.
Tom Cruise
#28. It might sound a small thing, but if you want to get Tom Cruise into your movie, without a track record or without those agents knowing you, it's almost impossible. Now I can get through to pretty much anyone I want. Of course, 90 per cent of the time they still say no.
Eric Fellner
#29. I just want to help people. I'm a helper. For instance, I myself have helped hundreds of people get off drugs. In Scientology, we have the only successful drug rehabilitation program in the world. It's called Narconon.
Tom Cruise
#30. I feel good about the decisions that I made and I?m happy. You know, I?m really happy.
Tom Cruise
#31. For me as a man, philosophically, when you talk about honor and integrity, that's the way I want to live my life. It moved me.
Tom Cruise
#32. I disagree with people who think you learn more from getting beat up than you do from winning.
Tom Cruise
#33. At some point in my career, I was thinking, "Why am I not a star? Why am I not Brad Pitt? Why am I not Tom Cruise?"
Patrick Fabian
#34. Tom Cruise isn't that big of a guy," my mom always says. I love how she tries to avoid using the word "short."
Yeah," I tell her in return, "but he compensates by being Tom Cruise."
Not that anyone really wants to BE Tom Cruise anymore now that he's a crazy couch jumper. But whatever.
Ann Edwards Cannon
#35. 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.
Tom Cruise
#37. I'm not Tom Cruise. Very few British actors are. If you look at the body of work I've done it's pretty obvious I'm not going to make a 'Mission: Impossible.'
Jude Law
#38. Talk is over-rated as a means of settling disputes.
Tom Cruise
#39. Yes, of course. Are you really so arrogant as to believe we are alone in this universe? Millions of stars, and we're supposed to be the only living creatures? No, there are many things out there, we just don't know.
Tom Cruise
#40. Well, when you've had Tom Cruise play you, anything else is a comedown.
Leigh Steinberg
#41. I didn't have time. I was too busy breaking up Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman's marriage. (on rumours he was responsible for Julia Roberts and Benjamin Bratt's break-up)
George Clooney
#42. We know more about Tom [Cruise] and Katie [Holmes] than we do about global warming. We're the most entertained, least informed people in the world.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
#43. Being a Scientologist, when you drive past an accident ... you know you have to do something about it because you know you're the only one that can really help.
Tom Cruise
#44. I'm just trying not to have a Tom Cruise moment
[ ... ]
He was having a very Tom Cruise moment
Jamie McGuire
#45. I was never the ingenue or the pretty girlfriend of Tom Cruise in a movie. I didn't have that career, so I don't have to compete on that level.
Jodie Foster
#46. Have you ever gotten the feeling that you aren't completely embarrassed yet, but you glimpse tomorrow's embarrassment?
Tom Cruise
#47. It's chick flick disguised as a sword-and-sorcery picture. The only genre film with less balls is probably ... freakin' Legend. Anyone who actually enjoys Ladyhawke is a bona fide USDA-choice pussy!
Ernest Cline
#48. I've always had the same values. Family for me has always been important. When I shoot, everybody comes.
Tom Cruise
#49. Normally you're 21 years old and you look like Tom Cruise and you do a couple underwear commercials first and then you're a movie star. That didn't happen for me. So it was all quite overwhelming.
Billy Bob Thornton
#50. 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.
Tom Cruise
#51. What we do is entertainment. They wouldn't go to Tom Cruise and ask if his movies are fake. We provide entertainment. I would rather someone tell me I am not entertaining than ask if what we do is fake.
John Cena
#52. To be the leading man it's about the celebrity and the looks, and it's tough to do that. People who do it great are people like Tom Cruise and Will Smith - they're built for that. I ain't. I'm more of a character guy.
Jamie Foxx
#53. We all believe what we read. I read how Tom Cruise and I were two big egos holding up shooting. I know that isn't true - but if I wasn't making a movie with him and I just picked up the paper, I'd believe it. That's interesting, isn't it?
Dustin Hoffman
#54. I happen to think nearly everybody - especially those one might find in the odd issue of 'People' magazine, including me - is frightfully boring, Especially me. And Tom Cruise. Tom and I are alike in only this way.
Berkeley Breathed
#55. Go watch (Minority Report) if you can bear Tom Cruise for that long
Kara Swisher
#56. There are certainly laws and elements that make a film more accessible to mainstream audiences. If you've got Tom Cruise as a strongman, I'm sure it would have larger audiences, but it wouldn't have the same substance.
Werner Herzog
#57. It's just weird that out of nowhere God said, May the three best-looking guys in Hollywood have babies - Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt and me. It was bizarre that God said, I want to make the planet more beautiful, and I got the call.
Adam Sandler
#58. I had to train myself to focus my attention. I became very visual and learned how to create mental images in order to comprehend what I read.
Tom Cruise
#60. It seems to me that if there were any logic to our language, trust would be a four letter word.
Tom Cruise
#61. I've been fortunate to view the world as if Tom Cruise is constantly walking in front of me on his way across a tarmac before an aerial dogfight. I'm speaking cinematically here. The homoeroticism was an accident that I wont dismiss.
Jason Mraz
#62. I don't care if you print something nasty about me. If it's true, fine. I don't care. But just make sure it's the truth.
Tom Cruise
#63. Tom Cruise's pre-nup lets him keep his money, the kids and Katie Holmes.
Anthony Jeselnik
#64. 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.
Tom Cruise
#65. I am very happy to say I look just like my dad. But mothers always think their children are prettier than they really are, and mine has always told me I look like Tom Cruise.
James Blunt
#67. I don't want to be Tom Cruise. I'm not after some movie blockbuster career. That's not the kind of work I'm interested in. And frankly, it's not the kind of work I'm ever going to get.
Randy Harrison
#68. When you have to cope with a lot of problems, you're either going to sink or you're going to swim.
Tom Cruise
#69. I've spent many birthdays on a movie set, all great days.
Tom Cruise
#70. Most people who love movies and kind of understand the process realize that if you do a character like Gollum or Jar Jar or any major digital character, that costs twice as much as having Tom Cruise in a movie.
Rick McCallum
#71. I love adventure movies, I just love action adventure films. It's pure cinema and you go in and you're lost to it. To me, it's that challenge - I want to give an audience that ride, that entertainment.
Tom Cruise
#72. I just eat life ... I engage in life.
Tom Cruise
#73. I don't know many women who can relate to Sharon Stone and the kind of movies she does. I don't know a lot of guys who can relate to Tom Cruise's movies because they're on a kind of fantastic level.
Kim Cattrall
#74. I'm only two years older than Brad Pitt, but I look a lot older, which used to greatly frustrate me. It doesn't anymore. I don't have to fit into that category and get trounced by Tom Cruise and Brad.
George Clooney
#75. I believe we can balance the scales if Tom Cruise would lower his quote by a mere $29 million ... I assure you my salary would not make a difference. My annual salary is the budget for Altoids on one of Tom's movies.
Alec Baldwin
#76. I'm a good listener. I think it's the one characteristic that's most important. I've always been that way. Not that I take all the advice, but you've got to listen to it and have the courage to make your own decision. And just go for it.
Tom Cruise
#77. Tom [Cruise] is a great producer himself. He's got great sense of story. It's always great to have the perspective of the person who's playing the character in your film.
Joseph Kosinski
#78. A cartoon character isn't a specific person. It isn't Tom Cruise or George Clooney playing the part, it's a character that could be you. It's easier for you to get drawn into it in a special way.
Tomm Moore
#79. I'm not greedy. I just want my half.
Tom Cruise
#80. When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise.
Lauren Bacall
#81. As an actor - like an artist - you have to ask, "Why do I choose a certain moment to play something a certain way?" It's organic to who we are.
Tom Cruise
#82. 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.
Tom Cruise
#83. Every time I make a "Mission" movie or other films, people kind of look at me and go, "Well, now what? What's next?" I think there's always going to be another mountain. I think there's something always in store.
Tom Cruise
#84. Constantine cursed the faujis again, and then he cursed Tom Cruise for having made that bloody Top Gun movie. Since then, an entire generation of faujis had grown up thinking they could be like him just by buying those cheap rip-off sunglasses for 200 rupees from Zainab Market.
Omar Shahid Hamid
#85. I want to be like Tom Cruise from 'The Outsiders' and go on and do amazing movies for a long time.
Ashton Kutcher
#86. When I got the job, I was sure that I wasn't going to get the job because Tom Cruise almost got the job.
Johnny Depp
#87. Making a movie is like a chess game. It's about constantly changing patterns, adapting to new things. It's not just black and white, as you know.
Tom Cruise
#88. Stanley Kubrick was very selective when he went into a close-up. Every director has his taste in a performance, but Stanley would explore a scene to find what was most interesting for him.
Tom Cruise
#89. I don't hide from cameras or anything. It doesn't bother me. I don't seek our press for the women I'm dating, but if it finds me, it finds me.
Tom Cruise
#90. I don't care what someone believes. I don't care what nationality they are. But if someone wants to get off drugs, I can help them. If someone wants to learn how to read, I can help them. If someone doesn't want to be a criminal anymore, I can give them tools that can better their life.
Tom Cruise
#91. <> Me, too ... Huh, maybe I do like Tom Cruise. But I hate feeling pressured to find him attractive. I don't.
Rainbow Rowell
#92. The important thing is to be relaxed in your work. Same in life. Don't make everything too intense. Then you can let everything go and not "act".
Tom Cruise
#93. I told Leonard, in the immortal words of Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible 2, 'I'm going on vacation. If I tell you where I'm going, then it won't be a vacation.'
Shaquille O'Neal
#94. I think if technology is used in a way that is not responsible, that is a bad thing. I think technology and where it is going inevitable, and there's great benefits that can help an individual in society at large.
Tom Cruise
#95. I'm someone who doesn't believe in making my problems other people's problems.
Tom Cruise
#96. You just sort of let them go for a while, but it was time to have something done to my teeth. I'm glad. It's going to be good. Tom Cruise has braces now, too. I'm right in style.
Faye Dunaway
#97. Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes had the baby. He was there for the birth. It would've been nice if he was there for the conception.
Joan Rivers
#98. Even Tom Cruise made a better-looking vampire on-screen, which up until this day had been one of my biggest disappointments.
Ash Krafton
#99. 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.
Tom Cruise
#100. Whether it's making a film or raising my children, personally I'm striving to do the right things and to learn.
Tom Cruise
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