Tom Hanks Quotes
I have faith that a script is going to hit me like a ton of bricks, and when that happens, it's undeniable that I should choose the role.
Quotes to Explore
-
Bush already gave obscene tax breaks to people like me and Warren Buffet, and we are saying it's not fair.
-
The history of American women is about the fight for freedom, but it's less a war against oppressive men than a struggle to straighten out the perpetually mixed message about women's role that was accepted by almost everybody of both genders.
-
Katie Holmes is really amazing.
-
One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.
-
I just don't eat too much. That's never been my problem.
-
I think less than people think I do about politics. I care about writing.
-
A lot of these people were getting to where they didn't need help anymore. You have to start all over again.
-
I went to boarding school from the age of eight - first to prep school, then to Eton. One thing that kind of education teaches you is community living: there's little retreat. That's why people come out of it and talk about lifelong friendships forged in the furnace.
-
The gratification of desire is not happiness.
-
You know, it's always good to have seen a track before, just to kind of know where the little bumps are here and there, and just the general feel for the size.
-
Starting in the 1970s, American cars started to lose market share to foreign cars. It was clear what was happening - these better-made foreign car companies were encroaching on the U.S., and the U.S. car makers had less than half of their own country's market.
-
I'm a really good parent to myself sometimes, and I do things that make me learn and grow.
-
I think of a piece of music as something that comes alive when it is being performed, and I feel that my role in the transmission of music is to be its best advocate at that moment.
-
American power worldwide is at its historic zenith.
-
I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
-
I don't think the woman in French 'Vogue' was an object. She was always a real woman.
-
After I learned the piano, I went on to learn percussion, the tuba, b-flat baritone, French horn, trombone, trumpet, most of the instruments in the orchestra. Trumpet was my instrument.
-
After I can be happy with knowing that I did what I wanted to do.
-
The great thing about the Internet is - our show is totally modular. Every piece can be popped in and out. They're relatively short pieces. They're not long. And we can say, "here' s one way to market it. Take these pieces out of the show and put them on the Internet." And we're doing dirtier cuts and put those on the Internet. It's a real great way to market the show. This is finally the year a show like this can happen.
-
One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.
-
Get into the habit of doing what you see, not what you know. Human reason cannot foresee the accidents of out-of-doors.
-
Faith believes in spite of the circumstances and acts in spite of the consequences.
-
I have faith that a script is going to hit me like a ton of bricks, and when that happens, it's undeniable that I should choose the role.
