Tom Hanks Quotes
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Without question, we make choices - and those choices have consequences. So can you control your own destiny? To a degree, certainly. Must you have faith in serendipity? Without question, you'd better. Otherwise you're foolish.
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You don't necessarily go in to talk to the person to try to find some secret key to the lock.
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I know that my work in this case is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels. We know their names. They number a thousand for each one of the red ribbons that we wear here tonight. They finally rest in the warm embrace of the gracious creator of us all. A healing embrace that cools their fevers, that clears their skin, and allows their eyes to see the simple, self-evident, common sense truth that is made manifest by the benevolent creator of us all...
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I come from the school of That Horse is Not Dead.
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That's what's nice about directing a film and having it done: There's nothing more I can do about it. It's done. That's it. All I can do is let it go and hope that people are kind to it.
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As an actor I am always waiting for my luck to run out.
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I have a woman who teaches me what love is every day. Maybe that sentiment is possible to fake, but for me it's really true.
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Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.
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When you try to bring a story to life, it starts in your head and you see possibilities for it, but it's just one damn thing after another.
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All the kids are gone. It's the greatest thing that has ever happened to Mr. and Mrs. Tom Hanks. I'll tell you that right now. Second greatest after having the kids in the first place. When they go, holy smoke, it's like you're dating again. It's fantastic. Also, we were doing an awful lot of work.
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It's difficult to say no sometimes. I often hear, "They'll really take care of you," or "Someone else is going to take the role if you don't play it." Some of the best advice I ever received was to always ask myself: Am I going to kill myself if somebody else takes this role? The answer is almost always no.
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Help and you will abolish apathy-the void that is so quickly filled by ignorance and evil.
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Even the simplest choice can make a jaw-dropping difference in our world.
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An animatic is a process where every voice and every sound effect is added to rough animated drawings and it lasts exactly as long as the final movie. So you actually get to go into a screening room with the rest of the cast and you get to see it all at the same time.
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College isn't necessary for everybody and it's only from what you put into it what you go there for.
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The truth is that everyone pays attention to who's number one at the box office. And none of it matters, because the only thing that really exists is the connection the audience has with a movie.
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Houston, we have a problem.
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Audiences crave something they've never seen before. That's what they want. They want to be dazzled. They want to go in either to have their expectations blown out of the water, or have no expectations and are dazzled by the decisions that we filmmakers made.
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I'm not a smart man, but I know what love is.
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I know how the Academy Awards works: It's a card game, and I'm in the toss-up category.
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I don't think anybody's mind's gonna be changed.
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If you look at romantic comedies as pieces of commerce, the audience is looking for wish fulfillment.
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The average movie set is the least political arena on Earth. Nobody bothers talking about politics because, one, we all love the job so much. You don't talk about current events. You talk about old show business stories and whether or not there's gonna be French onion dip at the craft services table that day.
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In the early days you have a tendency to intellectualize, but you're really just trying to sound smart and score with the chicks.