Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life.

It was Howard Hawks who changed my life.

I don't look in the mirror; don't like what I see; never have. I am not my idea of a beauty. Never was. This is not false modesty. I've just never been enamoured of my face, which of course is magnified umpteen times on screen.

People should tell your children what life is all about -- it's about work.

When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise. His whole behavior is so shocking. It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially, but I think it's kind of a sickness.

You learn to rise above a lot of bad things that happen in your life. And you have to keep going.