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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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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Islam is about finding your own space.
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HB2 discriminates against fellow citizens because of who they are. This law directly challenges the legitimacy of the identity of transgender persons and then compels them to deny it every time they use a public restroom.
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It's always uncomfortable for me when I take off my shirt. No one else is taking their shift off. Why is everyone else in these movies bundled up in layers of clothing and I'm taking my clothes off all the time?
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I was in a really bad place. ... I wanted to find the joy of it again, ... You lose sight of the reason you got into it. ... you start making that dime and all of a sudden ... it gets weird. I started losing the joy of it all, and I wasn't happy anymore.
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The reason most of us go to the movies is to be involved in someone else's moral dilemma.
