Quotes by Tom Hanks

About Tom Hanks:

Thomas Jeffrey Hanks is an American actor and filmmaker. He is known for his roles in Big (1988), Philadelphia (1993), Forrest Gump (1994), Apollo 13 (1995), Saving Private Ryan, You've Got Mail (both 1998), The Green Mile (1999), Cast Away (2000), The Da Vinci Code (2006), Captain Phillips, and Saving Mr. Banks (both 2013), as well as for his voice work in the animated films The Polar Express (2004) and the Toy Story series.
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The desert, when the sun comes up...I couldn't tell where heaven stopped and the Earth began.

Tom Hanks

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

Tom Hanks

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.

Tom Hanks

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.

Tom Hanks

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

I do not want to admit to the world that I can be a bad person. It is just that I don't want anyone to have false expectations. Moviemaking is a harsh, volatile business, and unless you can be ruthless, too, there's a good chance that you are going t...

Tom Hanks

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

Tom Hanks

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.

Tom Hanks

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.

Tom Hanks

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

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 ...

Tom Hanks

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

Tom Hanks

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 suspici...

Tom Hanks

But I also think all of the great stories in literature deal with loneliness. Sometimes it's by way of heartbreak, sometimes it's by way of injustice, sometimes it's by way of fate. There's an infinite number of ways to examine it.

Tom Hanks

I think 80 percent of the population are really great, caring people who will help you and tell you the truth. That's just the way it is. And I think 20 percent of the population are crooks and liars. It's just a fact.

Tom Hanks

'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.

Tom Hanks

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?'

Tom Hanks

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

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 hig...

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

Tom Hanks

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

Tom Hanks

Author Bio

  • NameTom Hanks
  • DescriptionAmerican actor
  • BornJuly 9, 1956
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionFilm Actor; Film Director; Actor; Film Producer; Writer; Voice Actor; Screenwriter; Composer
  • AwardsAcademy Award For Best Actor; Primetime Emmy Award; Academy Award For Best Actor; Screen Actors Guild Award For Outstanding Performance By A Male Actor In A Leading Role; Screen Actors Guild Award For Outstanding Performance By A Cast In A Motion Picture; Golden Globe Award For Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical Or Comedy; Golden Globe Award For Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama; Golden Globe Award For Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama; Golden Globe Award For Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama