Tom Hanks Quotes
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If I stopped having passion, I'd be done.
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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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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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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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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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Help and you will abolish apathy-the void that is so quickly filled by ignorance and evil.
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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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If they could offer up a way to go to the moon that wouldn't kill you, I'd sign up.
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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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I don't think anybody's mind's gonna be changed.
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My work is really a blast. When it stops being a blast, then it ain't no fun no more!
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If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. It's the hard that makes it great.
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It was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were supposed to be together ... and I knew it.
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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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We are all God's animated cartoons.
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Let's not pretend there isn't a huge industry driven by the choices made by editors and writers who decide what a story is.
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When I was growing up, everybody in charge, my parents and teachers, had all survived the war, and they talked about the war like it was the Kraken - you know, this huge beast that roamed the earth during their formative years.
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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.
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For some people, I will be Forrest Gump for the rest of my life. But that's OK; that's a good thing.
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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 know what I have to do now. I gotta keep breathing. Because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring?
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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 I have no connection with the character, then it's all fake - it's just blah, blah, blah.
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As a young man, even if I was going to see a play or a film by myself, I didn't feel like I was alone. There was something that was unfolding up there that brought me into it. And I recognised that. For those two hours, it made me feel like I belonged to something really good.