Tom Hanks Quotes
People ask me all the time, "What kind of father are you?" I won't know until my kids are grown.
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No matter how much money I make, no matter how many hit songs. I still perform like a street performer.
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I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with your own all-too-obvious maturity.
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I've certainly not got any famous people's numbers on my phone. It's just not my thing, really.
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What had disappointed me at the time of the last tour, was to go on a worldwide tour, we were at some incredible places and we couldn't enjoy it, hadn't the time.
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Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.
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When you have a chance to play a character people can relate to, it's rewarding.
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The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it's like an audio collage. You can take any form of music and do it in a hip-hop way and it'll be a hip-hop song. That's the only music you can do that with.
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With social media, people share mostly their best moments. Don't feel like you're not doing enough when you see a mom posting about making applesauce after you bought it. Ha ha! It's fine! Just for raising a little human being, you should be commended.
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It's always nice when people say nice things or are complimentary.
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A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.
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You tax Mexico? The president of the United States is going to tax Mexico to get a wall for the United States of America? I'm pointing out the absurdity of a lot of these comments.
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How do you possibly say that a cover band is better than the band that created and wrote the material? It's absurd.
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Men treat men differently than they would a woman.
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When the first record came out, I'd go down to radio stations pretty much every day to get the record played, and I would walk in and they'd tell us how much they loved the record, but they weren't sure how much they could play it because they were already playing a girl.
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Well, I don't throw things. This particular night I brought one from the floor so to speak, and he ended up getting a cut over his head, and the police came, took him to another side of the hotel, and that was like September 6, 1981.
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I have been listening a lot to The Carpenters and Neil Diamond, Elton John, and thinking, like, 'God, it'd be great to write a sort of subversive, alternative ballad,' like Lou Reed does so well with 'Perfect Day.' And I really loved 'Video Games' - at the time, it hadn't really got as big, but it's a classic song; you can't deny it.
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'Star Trek' put sci-fi on the map and changed television, and 'Battlestar' has changed it in another direction by making it a little more mainstream and acceptable to people who wouldn't normally watch sci-fi.
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I think all of us feel like we're a bit on show, all the time.
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I get so into the moment.
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I have an English family and I've lived in England for years.
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My job as an actor is for you, so why should my private life be for you, too? That's not fair.
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When I moved back to New York, I saw a lot of girls knitting on the subway, and it had a bit of a comeback.
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We pray pious blether, our will is not in it, and then we say God does not answer; we never asked Him for anything. Asking means that our wills are in what we ask.
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People ask me all the time, "What kind of father are you?" I won't know until my kids are grown.
