Tom Hanks Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
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I didn't know I wanted to act until it was around 21. I had just come back to Los Angeles after two and half years of traveling and working as a dancer and singer and was looking for a new performing art to study. I started taking acting classes and fell in love.
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The stage and working in front of a camera are two completely different mediums. Each requires different techniques.
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When you are missing someone, time seems to move slower, and when I'm falling in love with someone, time seems to be moving faster.
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You got me: I do Pilates. I love Pilates because we do very specific training in soccer for the same six or seven muscles, but we neglect so many other muscles. So when I do Pilates, it helps get all the rest of the muscles in shape and gets them working together.
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I was brought up by the English side of my family, who are very repressed and working class. Absolutely lovely, but very English.
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My mom started working at the California Shakespeare Theater in Oakland when I was two years old, so I've always grown up around theater.
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I've always been a fan of sci-fi, fantasy, and horror. I like working with larger-than-life characters in fascinating worlds - places where the rules are different.
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I love working in America, I love being part of the industry out here.
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I love my body. And, I'm always working out. I'm an exercise freak, be it cardio, weights, t'ai chi or yoga.
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I'm a big believer in living life as an extended working vacation.
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I know I'm not the consummate Bollywood heroine. But I'm working hard on it.
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I like to be left alone when I'm not working.
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After you do this for a while, you get used to things not working the way you want them to. There's a job you want, and you don't get it. There's a movie you'd like to get made, and it doesn't get made. You become inured to it.
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It's about working when nobody's watching.
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I don't see the point in working just to be working.
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You have to remember I've been working with adults since I was 12 - they were my peers, and it has an effect, for sure.
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Pops played football for LSU. Ever since I can remember, I've been working with him running routes and stuff.
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I prefer working in good cinema, wherever it is. I like subjects that have a universal appeal.
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I just kind of went from being a standup, one-man band, to then kind of breezing back and working with other people. And now I'm just trying to be a legitimate guy who pays the rent, you know.
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America may be slow to rise to a challenge. But our history has shown that once we make up our minds to really do something, nothing can stand in our way.
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Luckily for both the tech industry and Hollywood, there is only one thing that counts - use of the Internet is still growing exponentially, as consumers shift to digital everything from analog.
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Politicians have responsibility to act if the public opinion changes. Flooding, storms, droughts are all getting people talking about climate change. I wonder if someday Atlanta will run out of water?
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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.
