Tom Hanks Quotes
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I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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It's not just the actor in front of the camera. And it's important to have respect for all those people that work behind the camera.
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Well I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the conversation change. But it doesn't mean that the whole world would be a lot better if it were totally run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten high school.
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I think that when you don't look at the good things around you, that you lose sight of all those good things. And you're not going to enjoy your life.
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I think I've got some more big plays left in me.
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The best way to hold a man is in your arms.
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Our deals and performance speak for themselves. And whoever doesn't feel comfortable investing with us will not.
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Why should Bollywood accept me? I should accept Bollywood. I don't care if Bollywood has accepted me. I don't seek acceptance. I don't need to live up to anybody's expectations.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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The great fun for me is these collaborators. I'm nothing by myself. Being with these people, whether it's the 'Homeland' cast or stage collaborators, they make you everything you are. They make you come to work. They make you be alive.
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With all the auditions you do, there is a lot of rejection you have to take as well. You get used to that.
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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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That's the reality of my life - I do normal things and then get to go to film festivals and wear borrowed clothes and turn up at premieres and talk about things I am passionate about. But then you click back to normality and your family and friends.
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Never get involved with a business that you can't really be hands-on - that if your employees quit, you can't run yourself. If I can't cut hair, why open a barbershop?
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I have this extraordinary curiosity about all subjects of the natural and human world and the interaction between the physical sciences and the social sciences.
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There are only three things I can do - make a dress, decorate a house, and entertain people.
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For sportsmen or women who want to be champions, the mind can be as important, if not more important, than any other part of the body.
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If you try to make money doing something you're not enjoying, it's a hard way to make money.
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True success, true happiness lies in freedom and fulfillment.
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To think to keep things as they are, is to let them move unpredictably, since nothing but death will still the beat of the heart or keep the universe from its perpetual motion.
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I just want to play until I think I don't feel good - and if I can still do it. If I can't do it, I don't think I'll keep going once I don't feel I'm playing the way I want to.
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You might not be able to outthink, outmarket or outspend your competition, but you can outwork them.
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I like to make an image that is so simple you can't avoid it, and so complicated you can't figure it out.
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Tweeting is like sending out cool telegrams to your friends once a week.
