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Tom Hanks Quotes & Sayings

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Even the simplest choice can make a jaw-dropping difference in our world. — Tom Hanks

If things were easy to find, they wouldn't be worth finding. — Tom Hanks

May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live. — Tom Hanks

When you're on the open sea and you drop 10, 12 feet and your stomach goes up around your neck - that's when you have problems. — Tom Hanks

I've made over 20 movies, and 5 of them are good. — Tom Hanks

Tom Hanks knows the name of all the episodes. — Patrick Stewart

Believing is seeing and seeing is believing. — Tom Hanks

Shake it off and move on. — Tom Hanks

The power of the individual is as powerful as the universe is infinite. — Tom Hanks

If you can feel like a good man in your 40s, you can feel like a better man in your 50s, a Superman in your 60s, and maybe a Spider-Man in your 70s. — Tom Hanks

It just so happens that my body type and my lifestyle gives me a preclusion for high blood sugars. — Tom Hanks

I played in 'From the Earth to the Moon,' working with Tom Hanks. He is a great guy, very smart. — Tom Verica

Well, who wouldn't want to work with Tom Hanks? — Alison Owen

Tom Hanks hits a new career peak. One of the best films of the year. — Peter Travers

After seeing 'Big,' I wanted an elevator that opened directly into my apartment, just like Tom Hanks did. — Macaulay Culkin

Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal. — Tom Hanks

I know what I have to do now, I've got to keep breathing because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring? — Tom Hanks

There was nothing to react to except wind and trees [in Cast Away]. It was like making a silent movie. — Tom Hanks

Houston, we have a problem. — Tom Hanks

I did a 'Love Boat!' And based on my trip on the 'Love Boat,' I said, 'I'd just as soon not do 'Fantasy Island.' — Tom Hanks

Childish, selfish, immature - that's right, I am. But do you know how much money I make for thinking this way? — Tom Hanks

I had to say no to 'Fantasy Island' back when I was doing 'Bosom Buddies.' — Tom Hanks

A hero is somebody who voluntarily walks into the unknown.
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As an actor I am always waiting for my luck to run out. — Tom Hanks

My job has always been to hold a mirror up to nature. — Tom Hanks

Dear God, thank you for my life. I forgot how big and wonderful it is. — Tom Hanks

It's just as hard ... staying happily married as it is doing movies. — Tom Hanks

Kermit was the Everyman, the original Tom Hanks, but I have a special place in my heart for Fozzie Bear. The classic borderline hacky entertainer. — Jason Segel

If there was ever someone to look up to, it's Tom Hanks. — John Krasinski

For some people, I will be Forrest Gump for the rest of my life. But that's OK; that's a good thing. — Tom Hanks

In your mid-30s, it's time to start playing guys of compromise. And as you get older, men of bitter compromise — Tom Hanks

I don't really have a lot of fun playing just straight good guys. It's not my thing. It's like Tom Hanks territory. — Denis Leary

Tweeting is like sending out cool telegrams to your friends once a week. — Tom Hanks

Tom Hanks is fantastic - he is one of my dad's good friends, and he's very warm and funny. — Bryce Dallas Howard

There was a period of time in Los Angeles when I wondered if I was just going to lose everything. — Tom Hanks

Mama always said, dying was a part of life. I sure wish it wasn't. — Tom Hanks

Every job requires a certain riding of a horse. — Tom Hanks

My wife and I, we met making a movie. This is not just our job, it's our life. It's what we do naturally whether we're working together or not. — Tom Hanks

I'm not a smart man, but I know what love is. — Tom Hanks

I did get Tom Hanks to say, Life is just a box of chocolates. — James Lipton

I would not want to live in a country that would have me as a leader in any sort of political bent. — Tom Hanks

I get a lot of comments from people that I remind them of a young Tom Hanks. — Brendan Robinson

I learned everything about love, watching 'Splash.' That's why I'm still single, so thanks Tom Hanks and Daryl Hannah for that. — Charlize Theron

It was a million tiny things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were supposed to be together ... and I knew it. — Tom Hanks

I come from the school of That Horse is Not Dead. — Tom Hanks

I just know that every man I kill the farther away from home I feel. — Tom Hanks

If they could offer up a way to go to the moon that wouldn't kill you, I'd sign up. — Tom Hanks

The desert, when the sun comes up ... I couldn't tell where heaven stopped and the Earth began. — Tom Hanks

The nature of motion capture is only going to work for certain films. It's not going to put any other type of movies out of business. — Tom Hanks

It's always a combination of physics and poetry that I find inspiring. It's hard to wrap your head around things like the Hubble scope. — Tom Hanks

Repertory theater is all about being part of the whole, one of the many colors in this vast palette. — Tom Hanks

So now I know what I have to do. I have to keep breathing. And tomorrow the sun will rise, and who knows what the tide will bring in. — William Broyles Jr.

Tom Hanks comes with a lot of credibility. — Peter Landesman

When you're a kid, Kermit is Tom Hanks. He's Tom Hanks for kids or Jimmy Stewart for kids. He's truly the every man. — Jason Segel

It's nice to finally get scripts offered to me that aren't the ones Tom Hanks wipes his butt with. — Jim Carrey

I understand the concept of optimism. But I think with me what you get is a lack of cynicism. — Tom Hanks

If you're funny, if there's something that makes you laugh, then every day's going to be okay. — Tom Hanks

And I'm not apolitical - I'm very specific in my politics. But a lot of the time it's nobody's business unless you're over at my house having dinner. — Tom Hanks

Some people go to bed at night thinking, 'That was a good day.' I am one of those who worries and asks, 'How did I screw up today?' — Tom Hanks

Human beings do things for a reason, even if sometimes it's the wrong reason. — Tom Hanks

I always wanted to play Lestrade of Scotland Yard 'cause he's a buffoon that gets to wear a uniform. I thought that would be fun. — Tom Hanks

We are still in the position of waking up and having a choice. Do I make the world better today somehow, or do I not bother? — Tom Hanks

I don't really have aspirations to be Tom Hanks. — Will Ferrell

Tom Hanks has taken George Clooney's place as the big-hitter driving a lot of liberal causes. — Bill O'Reilly

I don't cause riots, but I do cause confusion. People freeze when they spot me. — Tom Hanks

If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. It's the hard that makes it great. — Tom Hanks

Saying no to something is actually much more powerful than saying yes. — Tom Hanks

If you look at romantic comedies as pieces of commerce, the audience is looking for wish fulfillment. — Tom Hanks

The more men I kill, the more far away from home I feel
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Never give up because you never know what the tide will bring in the next day. — Tom Hanks

The only way you can truly control how you are seen is by being honest all the time. — Tom Hanks

We are all God's animated cartoons. — Tom Hanks

Are you crying? There's no crying. There's no crying in baseball. — Tom Hanks

Larger-than-life characters make up about .01 percent of the world's population. — Tom Hanks

Sandler's always good. Tom Hanks gave me some good advice. — Jimmy Fallon

Actors with political views are a dime a dozen. — Tom Hanks

If you have to have a job in this world, a high-priced movie star is a pretty good gig. — Tom Hanks

E-mail is far more convenient than the telephone, as far as I'm concerned. I would throw my phone away if I could get away with it. — Tom Hanks

Oprah Winfrey today you are surrounded by nothing but love. — Tom Hanks

I'm not interested in doing something edgy with a capital E just so everyone knows, 'Oh, OK, now he's showing us he can do edgy.' — Tom Hanks

You don't necessarily go in to talk to the person to try to find some secret key to the lock. — Tom Hanks

I don't follow football, I just love the name Aston Villa. Here in England you have other footballing entities like Manchester and Arsenal and Chelsea — Tom Hanks

You learn more from getting your butt kicked than getting it kissed. — Tom Hanks

Making a film is to make sure that everybody looks forward to coming to work. — Tom Hanks

My favorite traditional Christmas movie that I like to watch is All Quiet on the Western Front. It's just not December without that movie in my house. — Tom Hanks

I think it's better to feel good than to look good. — Tom Hanks

Mama always had a way of explaining things so I could understand them. — Tom Hanks

This is what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. — Tom Hanks

The guy I've never worked with that is pissing me off is Tom Hanks. I want to work with Tom Hanks more than anyone. — Peter Farrelly

College isn't necessary for everybody and it's only from what you put into it what you go there for. — Tom Hanks

There's no substitute for a great love who says, 'No matter what's wrong with you, you're welcome at this table. — Tom Hanks

It's no wonder we're all such a mess, is it? We're like Tom Hanks in Big. Little boys and girls trapped in adult bodies and forced to get on with it. — Nick Hornby

I have gone through so many examinations of what a hero is, between the World War II stuff and the astronaut stuff. — Tom Hanks

Tom Hanks has been a huge idol of mine. I'd love to work with someone like him someday. You could learn a lot working with someone like that. — James Lafferty

I just want somebody I can have a decent conversation with over dinner." - Tom Hanks, Sleepless in Seattle (1993) 11 — Jenn Bennett

The prejudice surrounding AIDS exacts a social death which precedes the actual physical one. — Tom Hanks

If not for John Adams leading a revolution against Great Britain ... This would be the BAFTAs. — Tom Hanks

The "Toy Story" films accomplish what timeless classics aim for - innocent characters who face an endless trail of adventures. — Tom Hanks