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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• If you're funny, if there's something that makes you laugh, then every day's going to be okay.

  

  Tom Hanks
  • Funny
  • Laugh
  • Makes

• My son is a gentleman and a professional who is pursuing something difficult. Yet the only thing he has ever asked me for is advice - never favors. He has just said, "What do you think I should do, Dad?" It's extraordinary to me that my son would listen to and have faith in whatever wisdom I can offer.

  

  Tom Hanks
  • Son
  • Professional
  • Gentleman

• Every job requires a certain riding of a horse.

  

  Tom Hanks
  • Job
  • Horse
  • Riding

• Even if a story has nothing to do with my life, if I can recognise something of myself in the character and think, 'Oh yeah, that's what I'd do...' yeah, that's what I look for.

  

  Tom Hanks
  • Life
  • Character
  • Think

• Prior to Saving Private Ryan I never worked with men. I was always working with some babe, and it was always about falling in love, and it just got turned around. I'm not looking for any particular kind of story. I wait until it comes across my desk.

  

  Tom Hanks
  • Working
  • Falling In Love
  • Saving Private Ryan

• I did a 'Love Boat!' And based on my trip on the 'Love Boat,' I said, 'I'd just as soon not do 'Fantasy Island.''

  

  Tom Hanks
  • Fantasy Island
  • Love Boat

• But actors with political views are a dime a dozen.

  

  Tom Hanks
  • Actors
  • Views
  • Dime

• Never give up because you never know what the tide will bring in the next day.

  

  Tom Hanks
  • Never Give Up
  • Tide

• If not for John Adams leading a revolution against Great Britain...This would be the BAFTAs.

  

  Tom Hanks
  • Revolution
  • Great Britain
  • John Adams

• I don't parade my family out for display, which is the way it will stay. Yet I have a reputation for being cooperative with the press. That's because when I do give an interview, I'm willing to tell the truth about what I do for a living and how goofy it is sometimes - and how volatile it can also be.

  

  Tom Hanks
  • Family
  • Reputation
  • Press

• I will entertain anything; it doesn't matter. You know, it's not obviously about the price, it's not about who, it's kind of about when and what. It's material, that's all.

  

  Tom Hanks
  • Price
  • Entertain
  • What

• I'm not a smart man, but I know what love is.

  

  Tom Hanks
  • Love
  • Man
  • Know

• I don't follow football, I just love the name Aston Villa. Here in England you have other footballing entities like Manchester and Arsenal and Chelsea...

  

  Tom Hanks
  • Football
  • Arsenal
  • Chelsea

• There is something basic about protecting land by taking it off the market. People should be able to enjoy where they live while at the same time protect the plants and animals around them.

  

  Tom Hanks
  • People
  • Live
  • Enjoy

• 'Larry Crowne' is about as bummed out a human being as one can be when he loses his job. What he is able to enjoy is something that may not be available to everybody. But it's about the value of being willing to get and willing to give good advice.

  

  Tom Hanks
  • Job
  • Human being
  • Larry Crowne

• The same way that I know that I'll never do a movie as good or as celebrated as 'Forrest Gump,' I know that I'll never do a movie as bad as 'Bonfire of the Vanities.'

  

  Tom Hanks
  • Movie
  • Way
  • Forrest Gump

• It was incredibly cheesy set with torches TV's Survivor - it looked like the lobby of the Enchanted Tiki Room at Disneyland. And here as some guy pulling names out of a coconut, and I said, 'This is the thing that has made American mass media stop in their tracks?

  

  Tom Hanks
  • Disneyland
  • Lobby
  • TV`s Survivor

• At the end of the day it's got to be a good movie, it's got to be a funny movie, and it's got to make people think, 'Hey, I couldn't have spent my time any better.'

  

  Tom Hanks
  • Movie
  • End Of The Day

• Some people are cowards... I think by and large a third of people are villains, a third are cowards, and a third are heroes. Now, a villain and a coward can choose to be a hero, but they've got to make that choice.

  

  Tom Hanks
  • People
  • Heroes
  • Villains

• A story has the opportunity to enlighten us, because as we connect the extraordinary moments on film with the ordinary moments of our lives, we ask ourselves, "What am I going to do the next time I'm scared? What would it be like to say goodbye to my family for the last time?"

  

  Tom Hanks
  • Opportunity
  • Story
  • Enlighten

• I try to do what I call the three E's - educate, entertain, and enlighten. If you don't entertain, no one will show up. But you also have to educate, because people want to discover specific things about a world unlike their own - whether it's how hard it is to go to the moon or how scary it is to be on Omaha Beach.

  

  Tom Hanks
  • Educate
  • Entertain
  • Enlighten

• E-mail is far more convenient than the telephone, as far as I'm concerned. I would throw my phone away if I could get away with it.

  

  Tom Hanks
  • E-mail
  • Telephone
  • Convenient

• We're part of a greater humanity and we can actually affect the world by the choices we make once we leave the theater.

  

  Tom Hanks
  • World
  • Humanity
  • Theater

• I have gone through so many examinations of what a hero is, between the World War II stuff and the astronaut stuff.

  

  Tom Hanks
  • Hero
  • World War II
  • Astronaut