# Tom Cruise

Tom Cruise (born Thomas Cruise Mapother IV on July 3, 1962) is a three-time Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe Award-winning American actor and producer.

## Quotes

* The important thing with a child is that you love them, you protect them and you help them to grow and find out who they are. And as a parent, it's my responsibility to help them to become independent and get all the knowledge and a broad view of the world and life. I know that Nic [former wife Nicole Kidman] absolutely agrees with that. And that's what's important: being there.
** Quoted in Neil Strauss, "The Passion of the Cruise", Rolling Stone (August 2004).
* I kept looking [at wife Katie Holmes] and thinking, 'This woman's amazing.' I'm happy that I'm with her. She's amazing, and I'd think the same of her even if she wasn't with me -- she's just amazing.
** Loving Life. Oprah.com. May 23, 2005.
* It was more than fun, and it was more than great... It was historic. What Oprah did by acknowledging those women... they've not only had an impact on women, and African-American women, but on men, and on the world. They really have changed the culture for the better. It's a great inspiration.
** Loving Life. Oprah.com. May 23, 2005.
* 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", The Daily Mail (2006-04-15).

### Transcript of Tom Cruise on Scientology (January 16, 2008)

Transcript of Tom Cruise on Scientology. Times Online. January 16, 2008.
* I think it's a privilege to call yourself a Scientologist and it's something you have to earn. And because a Scientologist does, he or she has the ability to create new and better realities, and improve conditions.
* There was a time I went through [the Scientology doctrine], I said, you know what, when I read it, I just thought 'Whoa', this is it. This is exactly it.
* Being a Scientologist, when you drive past an accident, it's not like anyone else, it's, you drive past, you know you have to do something about it. You know you are the only one who can really help. That's what drives me.
* 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.
* It's like, we're here to help. If you're a Scientologist, you see life, things, the way they are, in all its glory, in all of its perplexity, and the more you know as a Scientologist, you don't become overwhelmed by it.
* 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 …
* I want to know that I've done everything I could every day I think of all those people out there who are depending on us. I think about it. It does make me feel we need more work, more help. Get those spectators on the playing field, or out of the arena. Really, that is how I feel about it. I do what I can, and I do it the way I do everything … there's nothing part of the way for me.

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

Exclusive from His Telluride Home: The Tom Cruise Interview. Oprah.com. May 29, 2008.
* 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.
* But even when I started out with Risky Business and Top Gun came out, there was the paparazzi. You knew them, and I could go up to them and say, 'Give me a break tonight. I'll give you the shots tomorrow'.
* That's laughable to me. That stuff's laughable.
** on allegations that relationship and family with wife Katie Holmes are fake.

## Quotes about Tom Cruise

* Tom Cruise, he’s a lot more famous than me.
** David Beckham, As quoted in BECKSWATCH: The countdown begins (October 22, 2010) by Amy Edwards, The Newcastle Herald
* Working with Tom is one of the greatest gifts I've ever been given by this business.
** Steven Spielberg, as quoted in Loving Life. Oprah.com (2005-05-23).
* When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise.
** Lauren Bacall, as quoted in The Mammoth Book of Insults (Robinson, 2011)
* The real movie stars were Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Spencer Tracy, Montgomery Clift. How could I put myself in the same category as Clark Gable? Tom Cruise is a great movie star. Do I consider myself a movie star? I consider myself a guy with a good job, an interesting job.
** Johnny Depp, Quoted in Bernard Weintraub, "Playboy Interview: Johnny Depp," Playboy (May 2004)
* I hate Tom Cruise. First of all, he’s always smiling. No 5' 8" man, not even one who lives on a diet of Ritalin and gin, is happy like that all the time. He’s always got this shit-eating grin on his face, like he just got a note from his managers telling him that Mimi Rogers and Nicole Kidman are extending their confidentiality agreements. Second, in TV interviews Tom laughs inappropriately and much too vociferously at non-humorous declarative statements, which is ironic because in real life he can’t take a fucking joke at all.
** Rivers, Joan (2012). "I Hate Show Business… It's a Cruel Mistress". I Hate Everyone… Starting with Me. ISBN 978-1-101-58088-2.

## See also

* Andreas Heldal-Lund
* David Miscavige
* L. Ron Hubbard
* Scientology
* Xenu