Tom Hanks Quotes

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

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• I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Love
  • Want
  • Forever

• The other actresses, who are called my contemporaries, they started with a megastar. They were superstars overnight and are the same even today.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Today
  • Same
  • Started

• I was interested in implements of mass destruction - from an academic point of view.

  

  Dan Farmer
  • Point
  • View
  • Point Of View

• The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.

  

  Lascelles Abercrombie
  • Age
  • Reason
  • Poetry

• For the future world-trading regime to mirror economic reality and to allow the use of modern business strategies, we need a single overarching multilateral framework for trade. We can have either a flat world or a patchwork of crisscrossing mountain ranges and tunnels.

  

  Victor Fung
  • World
  • Business
  • Future

• I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life.

  

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko
  • Life
  • Love
  • Love Life

• If acting doesn't work out, I'm probably going to be a professional chef.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Work
  • Professional
  • Chef

• As a professional track cyclist, I have always challenged myself, and I enjoy seeing how I cope when faced with the unknown.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Myself
  • Enjoy
  • Professional

• I've never read a screenplay in advance. You trust the artist.

  

  Beatrice Dalle
  • You
  • Trust
  • Artist

• Because I was able to submerge myself into the character, I didn't have to go back and forth. You don't have to work hard to bring emotions. It all just comes naturally, you're there living it.

  

  Camilla Belle
  • Work
  • Character
  • Work Hard

• The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Time
  • Man
  • Relationship

• It takes two guys on a team to do very well in the end and be successful.

  

  Ed Belfour
  • Team
  • End
  • Successful

• This experimentation is the custom-and properly so-in those sciences where mathematical demonstrations are applied to natural phenomena, as is seen in the case of perspective, astronomy, mechanics, music, and others where the principles, once established by well-chosen experiments, become the foundations of the entire superstructure.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Music
  • Perspective

• The male claim that females find fulfillment through motherhood and sexuality reflects what males think

  

  Valerie Solanas
  • Motherhood

• I been through the ringer, but they could do little to the middle finger.

  

  Eminem
  • Little
  • Middle

• For those who are concerned about me, please don’t be - I love Groupon, and I’m terribly proud of what we’ve created. I’m OK with having failed at this part of the journey. If Groupon was Battletoads, it would be like I made it all the way to the Terra Tubes without dying on my first ever play through.

  

  Andrew Mason
  • Proud
  • Journey
  • Dying

• You see a Party system that crushes down anybody who has different opinions, who has different ideas in their mind. Simply to have different opinions can cost someone their life. They can be put in jail, they can be silenced, and they can disappear. And the other people would take it, not giving support.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• With consumers buying two smartphones for every desktop computer they purchase, the demands, challenges and opportunities of the mobile space are reshaping our assumptions about design and user behaviour.

  

  Jeffrey Zeldman
  • Space
  • Design

• Her heart went out to him with a stronger movement than ever, at the thought that people would blame him. Maggie hated blame; she had been blamed her whole life, and nothing had come of it but evil tempers.

  

  George Eliot
  • People
  • Life
  • Movement

• I've been impressed, obviously, with what Israel has done over the years, as it related to technology, agriculture, research in general.

  

  Marcia Fudge
  • Done
  • Technology

• Maybe I could have been good as a drawer if I had done it as much as I did writing, but it's more scary to draw. It's more revealing. You can't disguise yourself in drawing.

  

  Anne Carson
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Done

• Democracy cannot breathe, indeed will die, if those enjoined to protect it and uphold the laws snuff it out - with no consequences.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
  • Die
  • Democracy
  • Breathe

• Just being a girl coming from YouTube, I know what it's like to have a very humble, simple beginning. It would be kinda crazy for my fans if I made it huge in that way and became the next big thing. I wanna be able to do it for them and say, 'Look, this is what you've done for me.'

  

  Christina Grimmie
  • Done
  • Girl
  • Simple

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

  

  Tom Hanks
  • Fantasy Island
  • Bosom Buddies