Top 90 Tom Cruise Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “No dream is ever just a dream.”

— Tom Cruise

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2. “In this life, it’s not what you hope for, it’s not what you deserve – it’s what you take!”

— Tom Cruise

3. “Perception and reality are two different things.”

— Tom Cruise

4. “There is Life in every breath...”

— Tom Cruise

5. “Nothing ends nicely, that’s why it ends.”

— Tom Cruise

6. “I’m passionate about learning. I’m passionate about life.”

— Tom Cruise

7. “When you have to cope with a lot of problems, you’re either going to sink or you’re going to swim.”

— Tom Cruise

8. “I’m an all-or-nothing kind of person, and when I become interested in something, I give it my all.”

— Tom Cruise

9. “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

10. “Even in my dreams, I’m an idiot who knows he’s about to wake up to reality.”

— Tom Cruise

11. “I always look for a challenge and something that’s different.”

— Tom Cruise

12. “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

13. “I don’t pretend to be the character I AM the character.”

— Tom Cruise

14. “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

15. “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.”

— Tom Cruise

16. “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

17. “Everybody dies, Sally. The thing is to die well.”

— Tom Cruise

18. “There is no such thing as a chemical imbalance.”

— Tom Cruise

19. “My childhood was extremely lonely. I was dyslexic and lots of kids make fun of me. That experience made me tough inside, because you learn to quietly accept ridicule.”

— Tom Cruise

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

— Tom Cruise

21. “I feel lonely at times, but I don’t want to get into a relationship with someone if it is not right. I’m not the type of person who just does things to do them.”

— Tom Cruise

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

— Tom Cruise

23. “Do I make mistakes? Yeah.”

— Tom Cruise

24. “They smell good. They look pretty. I love women. I do.”

— Tom Cruise

25. “I’m not greedy. I just want my half.”

— Tom Cruise

26. “On film Vanilla Sky: You’re going to get the full experience of what love is.”

— Tom Cruise

27. “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

28. “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

29. “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

30. “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

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

— Tom Cruise

32. “I’m usually nervous to meet people that I admire because what if they’re not cool or something?”

— Tom Cruise

33. “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

34. “I don’t care who you are, life has challenges.”

— Tom Cruise

35. “It seems to me that if there were any logic to our language, trust would be a four letter word.”

— Tom Cruise

36. “I demand a lot of myself. I want to learn. I can’t sit back. I like a challenge, so I create a lot of challenges for myself.”

— Tom Cruise

37. “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

38. “I believe in life. I know that life comes in at your heart and it doesn’t matter if you’re an actor, a filmmaker or a gentleman on the street, it comes at you. What Scientology gives me is the tools to deal with that, to better enjoy my life and to be able to contribute more.”

— 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. “I have cooked turkeys in my day but when Mom’s around I let her do it.”

— Tom Cruise

41. “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

42. “I love kids. I was a kid myself, once.”

— Tom Cruise

43. “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

44. “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

45. “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.’”

— Tom Cruise

46. “You know what? I’m sure drug dealers on the street, in some way, they are making money. That’s what I equate it to. Here is the thing: you have to understand, with psychiatry, there is no science behind it. And to pretend that there is a science behind it is criminal.”

— Tom Cruise

47. “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

48. “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

49. “I’ve had a very interesting life. There are ways of handling the complexities. I’m willing to take on the responsibilities as a father, as a producer, as an actor; and I enjoy that. I’ve always been changing and evolving and growing. There’s no pinnacle of power where you can sit back and relax.”

— Tom Cruise

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

— Tom Cruise