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Look Out: Tom Wants 10 Kids

Star just hopes 'Katie can keep up'

By Evann Gastaldo, Newser Staff

Posted Dec 29, 2008 11:25 AM CST

(Newser) – Tom Cruise is a “great parent” looking to build a 10-child brood, the effusive actor tells the Sun. Cruise, whose own father left when he was 12, doesn’t let the paparazzi get between him and parenting, saying, “I go to the children’s groups like other daddies.” And the 16-year age gap with wife Katie Holmes is irrelevant: “If I’m worried about anything, it’s if she can keep up with me.”

Cruise also discussed his disappointment that his controversial religion has gotten so much negative press and insisted he is done talking about it: “I say, ‘That’s it, no more—go to the Scientology website.’”

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Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes, and daughter Suri leave a restaurant in central Rome on November 17, 2006 in Rome, Italy. (Getty Images)

Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise arrive on the red carpet of the Los Angeles premiere of "Tropic Thunder" at the Mann's Village Theater on August 11, 2008 in Los Angeles, California. (Getty Images)

Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes arrive to the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute Gala, "Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy," held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 5, 2008 in New York City. (Getty Images)

Katie Holmes and daughter Suri visit "The Nutcracker" at the New York City Ballet on December 14, 2008 in New York City. (Getty Images)

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I want to be with my kids, and they get to do all the stuff that I wanted to do when I was growing up. My family is the most important thing in my life. - Tom Cruise

She is funny and smart and she likes the same things that I do. I like doing romantic things, such as bringing flowers and surprising her with things. I love candlelit evenings with nice music. - Tom Cruise, on Katie Holmes

I came across as arrogant and I didn’t communicate well. But I do feel good about myself at this point in my life. I live to be the best man I can. I make mistakes just like everybody else—but I’m out there fighting away. - Tom Cruise, on previous interviews

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