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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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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People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.
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The law is reason, free from passion.
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The first reason for starting to do the symphony concerts was to play this new piece of mine.
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If, as I have reason to believe, I have disintegrated the nucleus of the atom, this is of greater significance than the war.
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I love showing my scar on my tummy - it is shaped like a question mark.
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The reason most of us go to the movies is to be involved in someone else's moral dilemma.
