Tom Cruise Quotes

Thomas Cruise Mapother IV is an American actor and producer. He started his career at age 19 in the film Endless Love , before making his breakthrough in the comedy Risky Business and receiving widespread attention for starring in the action drama Top Gun as Lieutenant Pete "Maverick" Mitchell. After starring in The Color of Money and Cocktail , Cruise starred opposite Dustin Hoffman in the Academy Award for Best Picture-winning drama Rain Man. For his role as anti-war activist Ron Kovic in the drama Born on the Fourth of July , Cruise received the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama and his first Academy Award for Best Actor nomination.

In the 1990s, Cruise starred with Jack Nicholson in the legal drama A Few Good Men and starred in a number of box office hits including The Firm and Interview with the Vampire , before starring as IMF agent Ethan Hunt in the action spy thriller Mission: Impossible , the first of a commercially successful six-film series. In 1996, Cruise also starred as the title character in the romantic comedy-drama Jerry Maguire, earning him the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy and his second Academy Award nomination. In 1999, Cruise starred in the erotic thriller Eyes Wide Shut opposite his then wife Nicole Kidman and also appeared in the ensemble drama Magnolia, for which he received the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture and was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

After receiving a Saturn Award for Best Actor for his performance in the psychological thriller Vanilla Sky , Cruise collaborated with director Steven Spielberg on the science fiction thrillers Minority Report and War of the Worlds . In 2008, he gave a supporting performance in the action comedy Tropic Thunder and starred in the historical thriller Valkyrie as Claus von Stauffenberg. In 2012, Cruise played the eponymous role in the thriller Jack Reacher. Cruise's films have grossed more than $3.7 billion at U.S. and Canadian box offices and more than $9.0 billion worldwide, making him the eighth highest-grossing actor in North America and one of the top-grossing actors worldwide.Cruise has been married three times, to actresses Mimi Rogers, Nicole Kidman, Katie Holmes, and has three children, two of which were adopted during his marriage to Kidman and the other a biological daughter with Holmes. Cruise is an outspoken advocate for the Church of Scientology and its associated social programs, and credits it with helping him overcome dyslexia. In the 2000s, he sparked controversy with his Church-affiliated criticisms of psychiatry and anti-depressant drugs , his efforts to promote Scientology as a religion in Europe, and a leaked video interview of him promoting Scientology.

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Famous Tom Cruise Quotes

“I believe in God. … There is no way you can be up here [in the Rocky Mountains] and think that there isn't a God.”

Exclusive from His Telluride Home: The Tom Cruise Interview (May 29, 2008)

Tom Cruise Quotes

“We are the authorities on getting people off drugs. We are the authorities on the mind. We are the authorities on improving conditions. Criminon (sic).”

We can rehabilitate criminals. We can bring peace and unite cultures.
Transcript of Tom Cruise on Scientology (January 16, 2008)

“I have to tell you something. It really is, you know, it's rough and tumble. It's wild and woolly. It's a blast…it's a blast. It really is fun, because dammit, there's nothing better than to going out there and fighting the fight…”

Transcript of Tom Cruise on Scientology (January 16, 2008)
Context: I have to tell you something. It really is, you know, it's rough and tumble. It's wild and woolly. It's a blast... it's a blast. It really is fun, because dammit, there's nothing better than to going out there and fighting the fight...

“Sex is about the connection. Great sex is a by-product, for me, of a great relationship, where you have communication and it's an extension of that. Where it's just free. And that's how it should be. It's spectacular.”

Quoted in Nicole Lampert, "Cruise: Katie can use painkillers during birth" http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/showbiz/showbiznews.html?in_article_id=383118&in_page_id=1773, The Daily Mail (2006-04-15).

“That's laughable to me. That stuff's laughable.”

on allegations that relationship and family with wife Katie Holmes are fake.
Exclusive from His Telluride Home: The Tom Cruise Interview (May 29, 2008)

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