48 Tom Hanks Quotes
As realistic as possible
Ok, but I get to be on top
Well, the question would be why?
He should not be hitting you, Jenny
Aha. Look what I've created. I have made Fire
He got me invested in some kinda fruit company
I have just two questions: What will be the mission? And can I go?
I don't follow football, I just love the name Aston Villa
May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live
Mama says they was magic shoes. They could take me anywhere

Tom Hanks quotes with pictures

Are you crying? There's no crying! There's no crying in baseball!
My name's Forrest Gump. People call me Forrest Gump
If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. It's the hard that makes it great
Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get
Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal
You guys should do a story on the tuxedo wars that go on if you're nominated
If you have to have a job in this world, a high-priced movie star is a pretty good gig
I would not want to live in a country that would have me as a leader in any sort of political bent
That's a search area of 500,000 square miles. That's twice the size of Texas. They may never find us
There was nothing to react to except wind and trees. It was like making a silent movie
We don't have a host and it's hard to vote yourself off the island when you're the only one on it
Defensively, we all stressed it, we weren't going to sit back in a zone this time and give them the 3s
From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle, we just decided to go
And it is meant to make people think, "How in the world did we do that? And isn't it a marvelous thing that we did"
There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while
I do the work that I think is absolutely fascinating. There's not nearly as much distraction for me now as there used to be
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
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
Now you wouldn't believe me if I told you, but I could run like the wind blows. From that day on, if I was ever going somewhere, I was running!
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
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 wasn't happy with our defense. We were asleep in the first half, then we were awake in the third quarter, then we fell asleep again
It may not be important for a while, But in 10 years, we may yearn for a common purpose like going to the moon. And we need to do the footwork now
Well when I think of home, I think of something specific. I think of my, my hammock in the backyard or my wife pruning the rosebushes in a pair of my old work gloves
I will entertain anything, it doesn't matter. You know, it's not obviously about the price, it's not about who, it's kind of about when and what. It's material, that's all
I must say that I do wrestle with the amount of money I make, but at the end of the day what am I gonna say? I took less money so Rupert Murdoch could have more?
That's what's nice about directing a film and having it done: There's nothing more I can do about it. It's done. That's it. All I can do is let it go and hope that people are kind to it
My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels, we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight
My kid could get a bad X-ray and I could get a call from the doctor saying I have something growing in my bum and that would change my perspective on everything instantaneously, on what is and what is not important
I don't know. People always think that there has got to be a dark side to everyone, a closet with skeletons, demons under the bed. People think all kinds of things about one another. They feel compelled to make up fears and false assumptions about their closest friends. Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour
I love what I do for a living, it's the greatest job in the world, but you have to survive an awful lot of attention that you don't truly deserve and you have to live up to your professional responsibilities and I'm always trying to balance that with what is really important
As a boy I'd often spend my days biking on riverbeds and arroyos and come home exhausted. I realize now how much I took for granted having the natural world so close at hand. It wasn't until I moved away, first to New York and then to Los Angeles, that I realized how much I missed the outdoors
What we're doing with Band of Brothers is trying to put it into human terms, so it is not just a flickering, black and white myth on a screen, it is a resonant story. I want the audience to recognize themselves in these men. They're not just mythic heroes
Once humankind has been some place and found it entrancing, they always go back, I think in the history of the human race, the moon has been the first place we've gone to and said, "OK, we don't need to go back there again"
Growing up in northern California has had a big influence on my love and respect for the outdoors. When I lived in Oakland, we would think nothing of driving to Half Moon Bay and Santa Cruz one day and then driving to the foothills of the Sierras the next day

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Prior to Saving Private Ryan I never worked with men. I was always working with some babe, and it was always about falling in love, and it just got turned around. I'm not looking for any particular kind of story. I wait until it comes across my desk
There is something basic about protecting land by taking it off the market. People should be able to enjoy where they live while at the same time protect the plants and animals around them
The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided too