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

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

May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

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.

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

Believing is seeing and seeing is believing.

Shake it off and move on.

The power of the individual is as powerful as the universe is infinite.

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.

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

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

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.'

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

A hero is somebody who voluntarily walks into the unknown.
Tom Hanks

As an actor I am always waiting for my luck to run out.

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Every job requires a certain riding of a horse.

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.

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

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

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

Houston, we have a problem.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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?'

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

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.

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?

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

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

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

The more men I kill, the more far away from home I feel
Saving Private Ryan

Never give up because you never know what the tide will bring in the next day.

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

We are all God's animated cartoons.

Are you crying? There's no crying. There's no crying in baseball.

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

Actors with political views are a dime a dozen.

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

Oprah Winfrey today you are surrounded by nothing but love.

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.'

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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