Tom Hanks Quotes
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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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We are all God's animated cartoons.
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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.
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I've been doing a pale imitation of Bill Murray for most of my career.
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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 want to have a good time myself. I don't want to dread going to work no matter what the gig is. I think, selfishly, I will make sure that I have a good time; how about that?
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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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Believing is seeing and seeing is believing.
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Now, learning how to make a movie is something you can figure out in about an afternoon. The physics of it, the marks, the lights, etc. What's hard to do is to suspend your own feelings of self consciousness. The natural actors can do that; they can become part of a characterization and learn how to maintain it.
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Work in the theater is more fun than fun.
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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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My job has always been to hold a mirror up to nature.
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It's just as hard staying happily married as it is doing movies.
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All directors should have to act and all actors should have to direct, so that they can understand all these key things that come into play with whether you can meet your day.
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The power of the individual is as powerful as the universe is infinite.
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All that most parents hope is that their children are happy, funny, well adjusted, and have a passion for something in their lives. What would negate everything is if the next generation that we're responsible for has a passionless existence. And that's cause for occasional sleepless nights.
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But the battles against loneliness that I fought when I was 16 are very different from those I fought when I was 27, and those are very different from the ones I fight at 44.
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I think I'm lucky that I had kids as spread out as much as I did, 'cause my son, my oldest, was born when I was 21. And my youngest is 15 now. He was born when I was 40, you know?
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As a boy Id often spend my days biking on riverbeds and arroyos and come home exhausted. I realize now how much I took for granted having the natural world so close at hand. It wasnt until I moved away, first to New York and then to Los Angeles, that I realized how much I missed the outdoors.
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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.
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I have faith that a script is going to hit me like a ton of bricks, and when that happens, it's undeniable that I should choose the role.
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No journalist has ever been in my house and no photographs have ever been taken of where I live. I don't parade my family out for display, which is the way it will stay.
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I understand the concept of optimism. But I think with me what you get is a lack of cynicism.
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The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are.