Tom Cruise movie quotes

“Someday? Someday my dream will come? One night you will wake up and discover it never happened. It's all turned around on you. It never will. Suddenly you are old. Didn't happen, and it never will, because you were never going to do it anyway. You'll push it into memory and then zone out in your barco lounger, being hypnotized by daytime TV for...” (continue)(continue reading)
Tom Cruise - Vincent

“Someday. That's a dangerous word. It's really just a code for 'never'.”
Tom Cruise - Roy Miller

“- Katsumoto: You believe a man can change his destiny?
- Nathan Algren: I think a man does what he can, until his destiny is revealed.”
Ken Watanabe - Katsumoto
Tom Cruise - Nathan Algren

“Benji, we're trying to keep a low profile. You want drama, go to the opera.”

Tom Cruise - Ethan Hunt

“- Lt. Sam Weinberg: Nobody likes the whites, but we're going to Cuba. You got Dramamine?
- Lt. Daniel Kaffee: Dramamine keeps you cool?
- Lt. Sam Weinberg: No, Dramamine keeps you from throwing up. You get sick when you fly.
- Lt. Daniel Kaffee: I get sick when I fly because I'm afraid of crashing into a large mountain. I don't think...” (continue)(continue reading)
Kevin Pollak - Lt. Sam Weinberg
Tom Cruise - Lt. Daniel Kaffee

“I'm a soldier, I serve my country. But this is not my country. I was lying out there bleeding to death, thinking, if I die now, I leave nothing to my children but shame. I know now there is only one way to serve Germany, and doing so I'll be a traitor... I accept that.”

Tom Cruise - Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg

“Look at the people. Now tell me which ones are free. Free from debt. Anxiety. Stress. Fear. Failure. Indignity. Betrayal. How many wish that they were born knowing what they know now? Ask yourself how many would do things the same way over again?”

Tom Cruise - Jack Reacher

“- Rachel Ferrier: I'm allergic to peanut butter.
- Ray Ferrier: Since when?
- Rachel Ferrier: Birth.”
Dakota Fanning - Rachel Ferrier
Tom Cruise - Ray Ferrier

“There are four types of people who join the military. For some, it's a family trade. Others are patriots, eager to serve. Next, you have those who just need a job. Then there's the kind who want a legal means of killing other people.”
Tom Cruise - Jack Reacher

“- Raymond Babbitt: 246 total.
- Charlie Babbitt: How many?
- Sally Dibbs: 250.
- Charlie Babbitt: Pretty close.
- Sally Dibbs: There's four left in the box.”

Dustin Hoffman - Raymond Babbitt
Tom Cruise - Charlie Babbitt
Bonnie Hunt - Sally Dibbs

“- Katsumoto: I will die by the sword. My own, or my enemy's.
- Nathan Algren: Then let it be your enemy's.”
Ken Watanabe - Katsumoto
Tom Cruise - Nathan Algren

“I tried to prove myself to you, but I know nothing of books, or alphabets, or sun, or moon or… All I know is Joseph loves Shannon.”
Tom Cruise - Joseph Donnelly

“- Nathan Algren: What else has she told you?
- Katsumoto: That you have nightmares.
- Nathan Algren: Every soldier has nightmares.
- Katsumoto: Only one who is ashamed of what he has done.”
Tom Cruise - Nathan Algren
Ken Watanabe - Katsumoto

“We walk, and Afghanistan reverts back to the Taliban. Only now the Taliban has metastasized into something infinitely more vicious and potent because they're now 2-0 versus superpowers. They butcher the people who helped us, who voted and were stupid enough to put their faith in our word. So call it not only the end of hope for 10s of millions...” (continue)(continue reading)
Tom Cruise - Senator Jasper Irving

“- Maverick: Mustang, this is Maverick, requesting fly-by.
- Air Boss Johnson: Negative, Ghost Rider. The Pattern is full.
- Merlin: Uh, excuse me, something I should know about?
- Air Boss Johnson: [gets his coffee] Thank you.
[Maverick does a fly-by past the Enterprise, causing Air Boss Johnson to spill his coffee]
- Air Boss Johnson: Goddamn...” (continue)(continue reading)
Tom Cruise - Maverick
Duke Stroud - Air Boss Johnson
Tim Robbins - Merlin

“Evil is a point of view. God kills indiscriminately and so shall we. For no creatures under God are as we are, none so like him as ourselves.”
Tom Cruise - Lestat

- Miles: Sometimes you gotta say "What the fuck", make your move. Joel, every now and then, saying "What the fuck" brings freedom. Freedom brings opportunity, opportunity makes your future. So, your parents are going out of town. You got the place all to yourself.
- Joel Goodson: Yeah.
- Miles: What the fuck.
Curtis Armstrong - Miles Dalby
Tom Cruise - Joel

“I'm a soldier, but in serving my country, I have betrayed my conscience.”

Tom Cruise - Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg

“You see the dilemma don't you. If you don't kill me, precogs were wrong and precrime is over. If you do kill me, you go away, but it proves the system works. The precogs were right. So, what are you going to do now? What's it worth?”

Tom Cruise - Chief John Anderton

“What does it mean to be Samurai? To devote yourself utterly to a set of moral principles. To seek a stillness of your mind. And to master the way of the sword.”
Tom Cruise - Nathan Algren

“- Bonnie: Please, I don't want to end it this way.
- Brian: Jesus, everything ends badly, otherwise it wouldn't end.”
Lisa Banes - Bonnie
Tom Cruise - Brian Flanagan

“You bitch! Why didn't you just tell me it was a Rum and Coke?!”

Tom Cruise - Brian Flanagan

“I left a can of Spam in your refrigerator... I hope your Brewers Yeast doesn't take it personally.”

Tom Cruise - Brian Flanagan

“You're not God, Nickerson. You're just a typing teacher.”
Tom Cruise - Stefen Djordjevic

“- Kittridge: I can understand you're very upset.
- Ethan Hunt: Kitridge, you've never seen me very upset.
- Kittridge: All right, Hunt. Enough is enough. You have bribed, cajoled, and killed, and you have done it using loyalties on the inside. You want to shake hands with the devil, that's fine with me. I just want to make sure that you do it in...” (continue)(continue reading)
Henry Czerny - Kittridge
Tom Cruise - Ethan Hunt