Ranking The World's 10 Highest-Paid Actors From Worst To Best

2. Tom Cruise ($40 Million)

Rank On List: 6th Place In terms of box office gross, Tom Cruise is one of the most consistent actors in Hollywood: according to Forbes, he hasn't had a real flop for over 30 years, which says a hell of a lot about his star power... and that people might like Cruise a lot more than they'd care to admit. Right now, he stands as the 6th highest-paid actor in the world; a deserved accomplishment for a man who always gives it his all in every single movie venture. Cruise gets a bad wrap as one of Hollywood's weirdest celebrities, mainly through his association with Scientology - and yet despite that, people like watching his films. As an actor, he's severely underrated; though he doesn't flex his range quite as much as he should, he is capable of truly great work - think back to this turn in Paul Thomas Anderson's Magnolia, or his subversive, cowardly performance in Edge Of Tomorrow. His best attribute by far, though, is his positive attitude: that willingness to put 100% into absolutely everything that he does. Even in 2015, he's the very definition of "movie star."