The best Quotes by Tom Cruise

I’ve never done work for money ever. If your choices are based on grosses and the film doesn’t do well, what does that mean? It leaves you with nothing.

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

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

There's an aura around him. He's professional, positive, upbeat, always smiling, always encouraging. I mean. it's crazy how huge a star he is, yet he's actually a real person, so down to earth. He engages everyone, cast and crew.

When Huey Lewis was the news
When we went flying with Tom Cruise
When shoulder pads and looking tough
Was the dirty David Hasselhoff
Too many men with heavy makeup on
Too many poodles with guitars
Thanks for all the joy you've given us
You will always be our superstars

That was awesome. I feel like Tom Cruise.

You just sort of let them go for a while, but it was time to have something done to my teeth. I'm glad. It's going to be good. Tom Cruise has braces now, too. I'm right in style.

You don't have time to think up there. If you think, you're dead.

Gentlemen, you are the elite. The best of the best. We'll make you better!

Maverick: "I have to admit, I wasn't expecting an invitation back."
Admiral: "They're called 'orders', Maverick."

To be the best of the best means you make mistakes and then you go on.

You've been busted. You lost your qualifications as section leader three times. Put in hack twice by me. With a history of high-speed passes over five air-control towers and one admiral's daughter.

Charlie: "What were you doing there?"
Maverick: "Communicating. Keeping up foreign relations. I was, you know, giving him the bird."
Goose: "You know, the finger."

Son, your ego is writing checks your body can't cash.

Goose: "I told her that you didn't even have a woman here."
Maverick: "Oh, really."
Goose: "You know what she said? Said, 'Oh, he probably doesn't have one, he's got eight.'"

You screw up just this much, you'll be flying a cargo plane full of rubber dog sh-t out of Hong Kong.

Who had I become? Just another shark in a suit? Two days later at our corporate conference in Miami, a breakthrough. Breakdown? Breakthrough. I couldn't escape one simple thought: I hated myself. No, no, no, here's what it was: I hated my place in the world. I had so much to say and no one to listen. And then it happened. It was the oddest, most unexpected thing. I began writing what they call a mission statement. Not a memo, a mission statement. You know, a suggestion for the future of our company. A night like this doesn't come along very often. I seized it. What started out as one page became twenty-five. Suddenly, I was my father's son again. I was remembering the simple pleasures of this job, how I ended up here out of law school, the way a stadium sounds when one of my players performs well on the field. The way we are meant to protect them in health and in injury. With so many clients, we had forgotten what was important.

I will not rest until I have you holding a Coke, wearing your own shoe, playing a Sega game featuring you, while singing your own song in a new commercial, starring you, broadcast during the Superbowl, in a game that you are winning, and I will not sleep until that happens. I'll give you fifteen minutes to call me back.

If this [points to heart] is empty, this [points to head] doesn't matter.

I don't have all the answers. In life, to be honest, I failed as much as I have succeeded. But I love my wife. I love my life. And I wish you my kind of success.

What is the answer to 99 out of 100 questions? Money!

The little things... there's nothing bigger, is there?

One day you'll know what love truly is. It's the sour and the sweet. And I know sour, which allows me to appreciate the sweet.

Your days of fighting to the so-called greater good are over. This is our chance to control the truth - the concepts of right and wrong - for everyone for centuries to come. You're fighting to save an ideal that doesn't exist. Never did. You need to pick a side.

We'll burn that bridge when we get to it.

We were living in a democracy the last time I checked.

I don't have to tell you what a comfort anonymity can be in my profession. It's like a warm blanket.

We just rolled up a snowball and tossed it into hell. Now let's see what chance it has.

We're trying to keep a low profile. You want drama, go to the opera!

As always, should you or any of your IM Force be caught or killed, the Secretary will disavow any knowledge of your actions. This tape will self-destruct in five seconds. Good luck.

I can’t walk by chocolate without eating it.

Nutella. I dig my spoon in and eat it straight out of the jar. I can easily go through one a week.

I'm a Barbie girl in the Barbie world
Life in plastic, it's fantastic
You can brush my hair, undress me everywhere
Imagination, life is your creation

Little princess in a terrible mess
A kingdom alone but no love to confess
Dreams of a prince on a tall white horse
Runs like a spirit by the castle walls

There's no mission more admirable than love.

We've lost a lot of people over the years. You'd think you'd get numb to it after a certain point. You don't.

When you're younger they always try to get you to do every ninny role that's going.

I'm still the little southern girl from the wrong side of the tracks who really didn't feel like she belonged.

I find it a bit sad that there is no photo of me hanging on the walls in the Berlin Museum at Check-Point Charlie.

The Jedi are trained to let go. They're trained from birth. They're not supposed to form attachments. They can love people – in fact, they should love everybody. They should love their enemies; they should love the Sith. But they can't form attachments. So what all these movies are about is: greed. Greed is a source of pain and suffering for everybody.

Success is all about having the confidence to shoot for something even if it seems impossible.

Whatever happened to chivalry? Does it only exist in 80's movies? I want John Cusack holding a boombox outside my window. I wanna ride off on a lawnmower with Patrick Dempsey. I want Jake from Sixteen Candles waiting outside the church for me. I want Judd Nelson thrusting his fist into the air because he knows he got me. Just once I want my life to be like an 80's movie.