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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I remember my wife in white.' It just made people weep to hear it...Everybody just thought it was the saddest sentence that was ever written. And it didn't matter if I never wrote another word. This one sentence had put an end to the need for any future sentences. I had said it all.
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I find playwriting really painful. I love it, or I wouldn't do it, but I don't love the theater as much as I love movies.
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Standardized testing has swelled and mutated, like a creature in one of those old horror movies, to the point that it now threatens to swallow our schools whole.
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One of the reasons I love the online world is that although that exists in abundance you can choose absolutely which part of the online world you want to live in. You can make your own kingdom in that sense.
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The reason most of us go to the movies is to be involved in someone else's moral dilemma.
