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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All my books have been titled based on a piece of the prose from inside the book.
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One grey cloak is much like another, just as all cats are grey in the dark.
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One of the reasons I don't do social media is that I like the feeling that if somebody asks me for a picture on the street, I don't have to say yes.
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The soul of man is divided into three parts, intelligence, reason, and passion. Intelligence and passion are possessed by other animals, but reason by man alone.
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The reason most of us go to the movies is to be involved in someone else's moral dilemma.
