Quotes from Tom Cruise

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

But my friends are happy for me. The people who know me are happy. My mom is happy. My family is happy.

I'm not greedy. I just want my half.

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

I feel the need... the need for speed.

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.

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

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

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.

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

In this life, it's not what you hope for, it's not what you deserve - it's what you take!

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

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

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 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.

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

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

I just eat life... I engage in life.

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

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.

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

Nothing ends nicely, that's why it ends.

If someone doesn't want to be a criminal anymore, I can give them tools that can better their life. You have no idea how many people want to know what Scientology is.

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