Tom Hanks Quotes
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Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.
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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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Hold the mirror up to nature. Human behavior is worthy of examination and celebration.
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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'm not a smart man, but I know what love is.
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But television, when I was doing it, was all about scoring. You had to make these jokes bang, do whatever you could to make the material really pop. And if it didn't, there was something wrong with the material, or with you.
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I come from the school of That Horse is Not Dead.
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Are you crying? There's no crying. There's no crying in baseball.
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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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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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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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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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As an actor I am always waiting for my luck to run out.
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I've made over 20 movies, and 5 of them are good.
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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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If you look at romantic comedies as pieces of commerce, the audience is looking for wish fulfillment.
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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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There isn't any great mystery about me. What I do is glamorous and has an awful lot of white-hot attention placed on it. But the actual work requires the same discipline and passion as any job you love doing, be it as a very good pipe fitter or a highly creative artist.
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Houston, we have a problem.
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I've worked with people who are much further to the left than I am and much further to the right than I am. At the end of the day, who gives a ... . Good for you. This is America. Vote your conscience.
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It's always a combination of physics and poetry that I find inspiring. It's hard to wrap your head around things like the Hubble scope.
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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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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.