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.”

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

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

“Do I make mistakes? Yeah.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“I go without sleep, I just go hard.”

“The thing about film-making is I give it everything, that's why I work so hard. I always tell young actors to take charge. It's not that hard. Sign your own cheques, be responsible.”

“Awards are wonderful. I've been nominated many times and I've won many awards. But my journey is not towards that. If it happens it will be a blast. If it doesn't, it's still been a blast.”

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

“I'm a romantic.”

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

“Every single time I start to do a picture, without fail, I feel as if I don't know what I'm doing.”

“As a young actor, people were trying to define who I was before I really knew that for myself. But I still remember thinking, 'This is what I love doing, and I hope I'm going to be able to do it forever.'”