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

- Tom Cruise

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.

- Tom Cruise

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

I go without sleep, I just go hard.

- Tom Cruise

I'm a romantic.

- Tom Cruise

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

- Tom Cruise

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

- Tom Cruise

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.

- Tom Cruise

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

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

- Tom Cruise

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.

- Tom Cruise

I've spent many birthdays on a movie set, all great days.

- Tom Cruise

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

- Tom Cruise

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

- Tom Cruise

Do I make mistakes? Yeah.

- Tom Cruise

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.

- Tom Cruise

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

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

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

- Tom Cruise

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

- Tom Cruise