Tom Hanks Quotes (63 Quotes)

May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

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

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.

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 millions of survivors out there make it one million and one.

We don't have a host and it's hard to vote yourself off the island when you're the only one on it.

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

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.

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.

referring to Apple ComputerHe got me invested in some kinda fruit company.

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

Who knows what I would have ended up doing with my time if it wasn't for Mr. Farnsworth.

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.

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?

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

Life is like a box of chocolates ... you never know what you're gonna get.

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

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.

I recognize you for your service and I thank you for the freedom, the gift of liberty that you gave me and my children.

There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while.

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.'

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.

The most accurate representation of how I feel is that I'm incredibly lucky to be working in this structure where people get paid millions to read the news on TV. And, yes, it is insane. And there is nothing I can say beyond acknowledging my immense good fortune, and being aware that I'm blessed, and aware that it isn't going to last forever.

Time demands that more than the fallen be remembered in this place of national honor. Let us remember not just those that lost their lives in the war but all Americans who were alive, conscientious and who chose to serve as best they could in the years fr

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.'

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.

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

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.

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

There are whole floors of people in studios that worry about such things, as though there is power that can be wielded over such matters,

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.

Houston, we have a problem.

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.'

My name's Forrest Gump. People call me Forrest Gump.

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.

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.

There is a huge amount of stuff I'm simply not available for. If they want to make a movie in a certain amount of time and I just can't, I don't even want to see that stuff because if it's really great, I'd be bummed out. So actually I think I say no to a lot less stuff than I used to simply because I don't see it.

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.

The shading and the light and its starting to look crisp and clean it looks surreal and real, it had a really neat 3-D quality to it without that fuzzy eyeball stuff.

I remember the first time he saw 'Saving Private Ryan,' ... That was special to him because of his name.

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

He redefined comedy by defining the moment of our ascendancy as a generation. As did Charlie Chaplin , as did the Marx Brothers, as did Laurel and Hardy define their own times, Steve Martin defined ours.

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 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.

Listen, I've made movies where I've carried guys through the jungle, ... and I'm more tired now at the end of this day than at the end of those days.

But look, I was born in 1956, the peak year for births in US history. I think I'm very representative of many of the thought processes my generation have been through and, by and large, people of my age have had their imprint planted on the consciousness of western society for a long time.

I understand the concept of optimism. But I think with me what you get is a lack of cynicism.

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.

For instance, he co-wrote the screenplay for the 1972 French film The Tall Blond Man With One Black Shoe, ... The Man With One Red Shoe.

The idea is for people to control their own material from start to finish and get in front of audience that wants to see it.