Tom Hanks Quotes

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

People ask me all the time, "What kind of father are you?" I won't know until my kids are grown.

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?'

Believing is seeing and seeing is believing.

I view my wife as my lover, and we have a bond that goes beyond words like wife or girlfriend or mother.

I have high blood sugars, and Type 2 diabetes is not going to kill me. But I just have to eat right, and exercise, and lose weight, and watch what I eat, and I will be fine for the rest of my life.

I went to college because I didn't have anywhere else to go and it was a fabulous hang. And while I was there I was exposed to this world that I didn't know was possible.

But 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.

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

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.

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

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

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

The truth is that everyone pays attention to who's number one at the box office. And none of it matters, because the only thing that really exists is the connection the audience has with a movie.

Houston, we have a problem.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

The same way that I know that I'll never do a movie as good or as celebrated as 'Forrest Gump,' I know that I'll never do a movie as bad as 'Bonfire of the Vanities.'

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

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.'

Shake it off and move on.

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.

I was never intimidated by change. I was like an army brat who had lived all around the world.

If I stopped having passion, I'd be done.

We are all God's animated cartoons.

All directors should have to act and all actors should have to direct, so that they can understand all these key things that come into play with whether you can meet your day.

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

If I have no connection with the character, then it's all fake - it's just blah, blah, blah.

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.

The nature of the movies is different than it was five years ago, and they're all driven by the possibilities of CGI, which means you can make anything happen on screen that you can possibly desire.

The pleasure of working with somebody who's an actor is they don't waste time with stuff that doesn't matter.

Let's not pretend there isn't a huge industry driven by the choices made by editors and writers who decide what a story is.

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

There's such an advantage to being involved in the day-to-day details of each other's lives. It's a marvelous fabric to exist in.

My work is really a blast. When it stops being a blast, then it ain't no fun no more!

When you try to bring a story to life, it starts in your head and you see possibilities for it, but it's just one damn thing after another.

I know the Pope is opposed to the use of condoms. All I can say is, I am a spiritual man and I've been happily married for 21 years. I don't even know what a condom is anymore.

Oprah Winfrey today you are surrounded by nothing but love.

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.

'Forrest Gump' was great, it was fabulous. It lasted much longer than anybody thought, and brought me a degree of attention that no human being on the face of the planet deserves.

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

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

I've been doing a pale imitation of Bill Murray for most of my career.

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

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