Tom Hanks Quotes

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.

No journalist has ever been in my house and no photographs have ever been taken of where I live. I don't parade my family out for display, which is the way it will stay.

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.

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

Being politically correct means always having to say you're sorry. Believe me, the power and pleasure and the emotion of this moment is a constant speed of light.

If I was to direct Ron Howard, I guarantee you, I would put him through a living hell every day. I would demand so much of him. We wouldn't quit until he leaves the set crying. Weeping! Spent!

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.

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

We're part of a greater humanity and we can actually affect the world by the choices we make once we leave the theater.

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.''

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

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?

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

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

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

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?

But the battles against loneliness that I fought when I was 16 are very different from those I fought when I was 27, and those are very different from the ones I fight at 44.

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

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

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

Yeah! I got type-two diabetes! I'm sure there's going to be some media scandal now, saying I got it because I gained and lost weight for movie parts or something - but I doubt that.

A lot of people would flee from what they think is award-show cheesiness, and I don't. I often joke that my speeches are very personal moments that play themselves out in front of billions of people.

I would like to think I've reflected the audience's lives somehow, though it's in this big, false, glamorous arena of movies. I hope people see themselves somehow up on the screen.

I know how the Academy Awards works: It's a card game, and I'm in the toss-up category.

I have faith that a script is going to hit me like a ton of bricks, and when that happens, it's undeniable that I should choose the role.

Work in the theater is more fun than fun.

Most people want to be able to go off and deal with their day - stop in here, run errands there - and when you can't do that, going out becomes a chore.

I'm not saying I'm not bummed if a movie doesn't do well, but that isn't the final analysis of whether it's any good.

I have a woman who teaches me what love is every day. Maybe that sentiment is possible to fake, but for me it's really true.

Everyone says, "You have to work at relationships." Sometimes you've got to work, but if you're working 60 percent of the time and only enjoying it 40 percent...

I don't think anybody's mind's gonna be changed.

In the early days you have a tendency to intellectualize, but you're really just trying to sound smart and score with the chicks.

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

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

It’s supposed to be hard. If it wasn’t hard, everybody would do it. It’s the hard that makes it great.