Tom Hanks Quotes

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

Collins, echoing Ed Catmull, "What separates people is the return on luck, what you do with it when you get it. What matters is how you play the hand you're dealt." He continues, "You don't leave the game, until it's not your choice. Steve Jobs had great luck at arriving at the birth of an industry. Then he had bad luck in getting booted out. But Steve played whatever hand he was dealt to the best of his ability. Sometimes you create the hand, by giving yourself challenges that will make you stronger, where you don't even know what's next. That's the beauty of the story. Steve's almost like the Tom Hanks character in Castaway - just keep breathing because you don't know what the tide will bring in tomorrow. ~ Brent Schlender

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

Shake it off and move on. ~ Tom Hanks

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

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? ~ Tom Hanks

Every day the sun will rise and you never know what the tide will bring in.
-Tom Hanks, in the movie 'Castaway'. ~ William Broyles Jr.

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

I wouldn't trade my career with anybody's. I'd trade a few movies with Tom Hanks - 'Apollo 13' and 'Forrest Gump' - but other than that, I love my career. ~ John Travolta

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

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

I don't ask for much. I don't ask to be rich, and I don't ask to be famous, and I don't ask to play center field for the New York Yankees. I just want to get married and have a wife, and a house, and I want to have a kid, and I want to go see him be a tooth in the school play! ~ 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

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

At the end of the day it's got to be a good movie, it's got to be a funny movie, and it's got to make people think, 'Hey, I couldn't have spent my time any better.' ~ Tom Hanks

There isn't any great mystery about me. What I do is glamorous and has an awful lot of white-hot attention placed on it. But the actual work requires the same discipline and passion as any job you love doing, be it as a very good pipe fitter or a highly creative artist. ~ Tom Hanks

Not long after 'The Pacific,' I began shooting the comedy 'Larry Crowne,' which was also with Tom Hanks, who also directed and plays the title character. ~ Rami Malek

When I work, a lot of times I have to lose weight, and I do that, but in my regular life I was not eating right, and I was not getting enough exercise. But by the nature of my diet and that lifestyle - boom! The end result was high blood sugars that reach the levels where it becomes Type 2 diabetes. I share that with a gajillion other people. ~ Tom Hanks

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

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

I had these kind of unrealistic expectations that were fueled by romantic comedies, and it has both helped me and hurt me in many ways. It helped me because, in general, they've made me hopeful. I just figure things will eventually work out for me. But nobody is like any Tom Hanks character. Nobody is Hugh Grant. No one is Meg Ryan! ~ Mindy Kaling

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

My wife keeps on telling me my worst fault is that I keep things to myself and appear relaxed. But I am really in a room in my own head and not hearing a thing anyone is saying. ~ Tom Hanks

Directing is a constant test of your communicative powers. You're constantly trying to explain people your vision of what you want and steer these tiny little details into a cohesive thing. ~ Tom Hanks

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

I am not a member of the chamber of commerce for show business, believe me, but there are some really good people in the business, and [Tom] Hanks has this everyman decency onscreen, but he actually is that guy. ~ Kurt Fuller

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

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

I got a call from Tom Hanks, who directed That Thing You Do!, when he was done cutting that film. I was like, "Oh, my god. Tom Hanks is calling me. This is amazing!" And then, of course, he was calling me to tell me that I was barely in the movie. But I'll never forget it - and this is why he's Tom Hanks, because he's got such a way with words. ~ Kristen Stewart

Some people are cowards ... I think by and large a third of people are villains, a third are cowards, and a third are heroes. Now, a villain and a coward can choose to be a hero, but they've got to make that choice. ~ Tom Hanks

Tom Hanks, who starred in 'The Da Vinci Code,' turns out to be related to a number of the historic characters that feature in 'The Da Vinci Code,' including William the Conqueror and Shakespeare. ~ Steven Pinker

Mike, did you ever see the movie 'Cast Away?' In that movie, Tom Hanks' only friend was a ball named Wilson. In this game, Russell Wilson's only friend is a football. ~ Jon Gruden

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

There's this misconception that the Navy is this cruise ship, and you get to go out and sail around, and every now and then, you have to swab the deck. But, no, it is a very impressive group of young people that live at sea, in this place that's very uncomfortable. They exude a pride that is well-deserved. ~ Tom Hanks

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

I'm glad I didn't have to fight in any war. I'm glad I didn't have to pick up a gun. I'm glad I didn't get killed or kill somebody. I hope my kids enjoy the same lack of manhood. ~ Tom Hanks

The term "godawful" should be used sparingly in connection with motion pictures. With Angels & Demons , however, it seems oddly appropriate. Not only does this prequel-turned-sequel to The Da Vinci Code make its predecessor seem like a masterwork of pacing and plotting, but it may represent a nadir for director Ron Howard and is probably the worst instance of acting from star Tom Hanks since back in the days when he was struggling out from under the shadow of Bosom Buddies . ~ James Berardinelli

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

One feature film that I am most proud of is Forrest Gump which starred Tom Hanks. Once you are called out to work in film, yes it is a small industry and your name gets around pretty fast. ~ Leland Sklar

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

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. ~ Tom Hanks

I know that my work in this case 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 one of the red ribbons that we wear here tonight. They finally rest in the warm embrace of the gracious creator of us all, a healing embrace that cools their fevers, that clears their skin, and allows their eyes to see the simple, self-evident commonsense truth that is made manifest by the benevolent creator of us all. ~ 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

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

When I was growing up, everybody in charge, my parents and teachers, had all survived the war, and they talked about the war like it was the Kraken - you know, this huge beast that roamed the earth during their formative years. ~ 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

Help, and you will make a huge impact in the life of the street, the town, the country and our planet. If only one out of four of each one hundred of you choose to help on any given day, in any given cause, incredible things will happen in the world you live in. ~ Tom Hanks

We both disliked rude rickshwalas, shepu bhaji in any form, group photographs at weddings, lizards, tea that has gone cold, the habit of taking newspaper to the toilet, kissing a boy who'd just smoked a cigarette et cetra.
Another list. The things we loved: strong coffee, Matisse, Rumi, summer rain, bathing together, Tom Hanks, rice pancakes, Cafe Sunrise, black-and-white photographs, the first quiet moments after you wake up in the morning. ~ Sachin Kundalkar

So you write to our congressmen
With bleeding pens
Of the sorrow within
And in return they just send
Tickets to the latest Tom Hanks show ~ Jewel

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

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

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

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

Tom Hanks is a huge superstar. And people tell me he's a very nice guy, not arrogant, not an entitlement guy. But very quietly, Mr. Hanks has become a left-wing power player in Hollywood. ~ Bill O'Reilly

I am who I am, and I think I have a good nature, by and large. But if someone takes advantage of that good nature, well then, you know, I'm not that nice a guy. ~ Tom Hanks

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. ~ Tom Hanks

In New York City real estate parlors took your money and lied to you, drug addicts relieved themselves in plain sight, and the Public Library was closed on Mondays. ~ Tom Hanks

I love my family and I love my kids, but when the moments come, it's not as though you can just substitute your own life with what you're doing on film. You have to go to some other place where it's bigger than your own life. ~ Tom Hanks

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

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

In the creative process you come to loggerheads and you just have to keep the process moving forward, even if that requires jumping on a plane and flying to London. It's a good thing it's fun, otherwise it would be too much work. ~ Tom Hanks

I've worked with Jack Nicholson and Robert De Niro and Tom Hanks. I've worked with some really good directors: Woody Allen, Paul Schrader ... I've really worked with a lot of people. But I'm intimidated by them, and I'm always thinking, "Oh, my God, he's not going to like me, and I'm going to get fired,". ~ Kurt Fuller

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

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

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

Almost the entire world is asleep. Those who are awake live in constant amazement. ~ Tom Hanks, Joe Vs. The Volcano

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

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

Now, learning how to make a movie is something you can figure out in about an afternoon. The physics of it, the marks, the lights, etc. What's hard to do is to suspend your own feelings of self consciousness. The natural actors can do that; they can become part of a characterization and learn how to maintain it. ~ Tom Hanks

In America, celebrities who go to see your show will come backstage and introduce themselves. Meeting Annette Bening and Ethan Hawke that way was amazing, but when Tom Hanks came, it was really special - I've loved him since I first saw him in 'Big!' ~ Tom Riley

My heroes are guys like Tom Hanks, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Matt Damon. These are amazing actors with amazing careers that every actor should aspire to. I'm not saying I'm going to get anywhere close. It's not going to be an easy feat. I'm just in awe of their careers. ~ Dylan O'Brien

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

Believing is seeing and seeing is believing. ~ 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.

I want to have a good time myself. I don't want to dread going to work no matter what the gig is. I think, selfishly, I will make sure that I have a good time; how about that? ~ Tom Hanks

They [Tom Hanks and Paul Newman] were simply always high level masters, and taught me as a kid actor never to be an a*shole to anybody, because it would be very tough to get past where they are. ~ Tyler Hoechlin

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

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

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

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

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

In the 1998 Oscars, I found myself in the bathroom in a stall, next to Tom Selleck. So I leaned over and I said 'looks like we're a couple of peeing Toms. His angry silence is something I'll never forget. ~ Tom Hanks

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

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

Audiences crave something they've never seen before. That's what they want. They want to be dazzled. They want to go in either to have their expectations blown out of the water, or have no expectations and are dazzled by the decisions that we [filmmakers] made. ~ Tom Hanks

Truth is, we offered it to Tom Hanks, which pretty much every movie in America does, but Tom passed. Billy Bob said that Hanks recently called and said he's voting for all of us for Oscars, he loved the film. ~ Peter Berg

My TV show had been cancelled; nothing else had gone anywhere; some alliances I had made petered out and nothing came of them and I was looking at a long, long year ahead of me in which there was no work on the horizon, the phone wasn't ringing. I had two kids, one of them a brand-new baby, and I didn't know if I would be able to keep my house. ~ Tom Hanks

I think I'm lucky that I had kids as spread out as much as I did, 'cause my son, my oldest, was born when I was 21. And my youngest is 15 now. He was born when I was 40, you know? ~ Tom Hanks

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

Several of the actors I've had the good fortune of working with stand out in my mind as 'ultimate'. I guess the obvious would be Tom Hanks, because he really is as fun and as genuine as he comes across in his films and interviews. ~ Barry Pepper

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

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

Back in 1998, he [Tom Hanks] gave the maximum amount of money that he could to Bill Clinton's defense fund. This is a man who was against gay marriage, as was Hillary Clinton. ~ Bill O'Reilly

For actors, when you first get the project and you see that it's a Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman-produced project, right away, from an acting standpoint, you go, 'Wow. That'd be great to be part of that. What a career move that'd be.' ~ Jon Seda

I'm not an Adonis, that's for damn sure. I've never really thought of myself that way, and it doesn't matter to me. My favorite actors aren't Adonises. Dustin Hoffman is a flawed-looking man; he's amazing to me. Tom Hanks is flawed-looking; people love him. Same with Gene Hackman. ~ Shia Labeouf

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

I think my friend Tom Hanks knows me. He understands me very well. He's always had a sort of parental feeling toward me. He knows I'm a big mush ball, which is just part of my personality. ~ John Travolta