Tom Hanks Quotes
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Every audition I get, I agonise over and I put everything I can into it.
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I literally was saved by a role, from becoming a cab driver. I never did have to wait tables, though, so looking back I guess I had it pretty soft.
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What in heaven's name is strange about a grandmother dancing nude? I'll bet lots of grandmothers do it.
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I miss baseball.
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I maintain the rather old-fashioned view that this is my work and it's in the public arena, but that doesn't entitle everyone to know what happened at home before coming here.
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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is.
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You have injuries that bother you when you're not playing. When that horn blows, you don't feel it.
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A lot of actors and actresses pull from past experiences.
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My grandma would say if someone else calls you a hillbilly, you might need to punch them in the nose. But if we call ourselves hillbillies, it's a sort of a term of endearment, something that we have co-opted.
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Touring is what you make it. I like to organise as much as possible myself.
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Slowly but surely, we have much better female roles to play and to choose from.
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It's hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves.
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A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.
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He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.
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If I think back on the books to which I have devoted my entire life, I am most surprised by those moments when I have felt as if the sentences, dreams, and pages that have made me so ecstatically happy have not come from my own imagination - that another power has found them and generously presented them to me.
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Of, course it always cheers a news editor when a story has what we describe as 'legs' therefore it, erm, runs.
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There are certain stars who are not actors. I don't want to be that type.
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When I was in university, my dream was to be a coach, like a high school track coach. Not to teach.
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I wanted to be a decorator. I wanted to interior design homes and do everything myself.
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I can't bear to see myself even in movies. The feeling is complex. I can't stand the sight of myself.
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One of the greatest myths of all time is that so-called civilized man is no longer an animal, and for that reason can strive to disarm himself and grow fat with false concepts.
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We should aim rather at leveling down our desires than leveling up our means.
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The reason most of us go to the movies is to be involved in someone else's moral dilemma.
