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.

Tom Hanks

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• Falling In Love
• Saving Private Ryan

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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.

  

  Caity Lotz
  • Study
  • Working
  • Singer

• The stage and working in front of a camera are two completely different mediums. Each requires different techniques.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Different
  • Working
  • Camera

• 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.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Time
  • Love
  • Moving

• 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.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Rest
  • Working
  • Helps

• I was brought up by the English side of my family, who are very repressed and working class. Absolutely lovely, but very English.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Up
  • Family
  • English

• 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.

  

  Zendaya
  • Up
  • Mom
  • Years

• 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.

  

  Gale Anne Hurd
  • Life
  • Different
  • Always

• I love working in America, I love being part of the industry out here.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Working
  • Being
  • Industry

• I love my body. And, I'm always working out. I'm an exercise freak, be it cardio, weights, t'ai chi or yoga.

  

  Kajol
  • Body
  • Exercise
  • Working

• I'm a big believer in living life as an extended working vacation.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Life
  • Working
  • Vacation

• I like to be left alone when I'm not working.

  

  Wayne Brady
  • Alone
  • Like
  • Working

• 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.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Job
  • Movie
  • Want

• It's about working when nobody's watching.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Working
  • Nobody
  • Watching

• I don't see the point in working just to be working.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • See
  • Working
  • Point

• 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.

  

  Indiana Evans
  • Remember
  • You
  • Working

• Pops played football for LSU. Ever since I can remember, I've been working with him running routes and stuff.

  

  Odell Beckham, Jr.
  • Remember
  • Running
  • Football

• I prefer working in good cinema, wherever it is. I like subjects that have a universal appeal.

  

  Om Puri
  • Good
  • Working
  • Cinema

• When I was working at Teleflora, I got booked to do 'Talladega Nights,' so I went and did that. That was really my first big break ev-er. I made as much from my per diem during the three-month shoot as I did for the entire previous year.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Working
  • First
  • Year

• I've always sought to express a tension in form and meaning in order to achieve a veracity. I have come to the conclusion that the art world has to join us, women artists, not we join it. When women are in leadership roles and gain rewards and recognition, then perhaps 'we' (women and men) can all work together in art world actions.

  

  Nancy Spero
  • Together
  • Action
  • Working

• If I can steal away and read something other than what I have to for my work, it's restorative.

  

  Roma Downey
  • Working
  • Stealing

• No one was ever good enough for anybody's precious sons. No one ever called daughters precious, and why was that? Things had not changed very much. In the end women like Emily and Ingrid and Freya and Joanna only had one another to lean on. The men were wonderful when they were around, but their fires burned too bright, they lived too close to the sun - look what happened to her boy, and to her man. Gone. Women only had one another in the end.

  

  Melissa de la Cruz
  • Women
  • Changed
  • Burned

• What is important is not to give up hope. I should have learned to be patient by now.

  

  Eva Braun
  • Hope
  • Learned
  • Patient

• 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.

  

  Tom Hanks
  • Working
  • Falling In Love
  • Saving Private Ryan