Tom Cruise Quotes

As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.

I was brought up to believe you should always live the most interesting life you can.

I work everywhere. If there is a nice adventure in South Korea, for example, why not? Russia, Brazil, whatever. I'm ready for almost anything.

I believe in adventure and imagination, and I got that from my parents and the things I experienced as a child.

The people that first climbed Mt. Everest weren't scientists, right, they were adventurers. If you're an adventurer, you want to go yourself. It's different than a scientist, who is simply wanting to learn.

You just want to try a bunch of stuff, because you don't know what's going to be great.

The fruit of my tree of knowledge is plucked, and it is this: “Adventures are to the adventurous.”

I wanted to see what no one had yet observed, even if I had to pay for this curiosity with my life.

I’m not sure what I’ll do, but— well, I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale.

Dive today from the cliff of what you know into what you can't know.

There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.

It's fun to discover things. I wouldn't want everything laid out, simply and too obviously.

I just have a gut feeling about something, if I really want to do it, if I'm excited about it, if I want to explore it. And that goes across all different sorts of genres.

Curiosity might have killed the cat, but little girls usually fared much better.

Right, from now on, whenever you want to find out about something, plunge straight in.

Never say 'no' to adventures.

I'm try-sexual. I'll try anything once

Man must have just enough faith in himself to have adventures, and just enough doubt of himself to enjoy them.

Exploration is wired into our brains. If we can see the horizon, we want to know what's beyond.

I always do that, get into something and see how far I can go.

There are some of us who are just born with a more adventurous spirit than others. There are lots of people who would rather do the same thing, and she just was never that.

Adventure is putting one's ignorance into motion.

There's a wonderful saying that's dead wrong. 'Why did you climb the mountain?' 'I climbed the mountain because it was there.' That's utter nonsense...You climbed the mountain because you were there, and you were curious if you could do it. You wondered what it would be like.

I suppose that the main drive is to find the edge of something and then throw myself over it.

- Why do you want to climb Mt. Everest, Sir? - Because it is there.