Tom Hanks Quotes
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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 went to college because I didn't have anywhere else to go and it was a fabulous hang. And while I was there I was exposed to this world that I didn't know was possible.
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I just know that every man I kill the farther away from home I feel.
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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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Making a film is to make sure that everybody looks forward to coming to work.
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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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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 reason most of us go to the movies is to be involved in someone else's moral dilemma.
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Believing is seeing and seeing is believing.
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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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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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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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My job has always been to hold a mirror up to nature.
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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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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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The power of the individual is as powerful as the universe is infinite.
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The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are.
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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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Back in World War II, we viewed the Japanese as 'yellow, slant-eyed dogs' that believed in different gods. They were out to kill us because our way of living was different. We, in turn, wanted to annihilate them because they were different. Does that sound familiar, by any chance, to what's going on today?
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I view my wife as my lover, and we have a bond that goes beyond words like wife or girlfriend or mother.
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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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It's just as hard staying happily married as it is doing movies.
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Work in the theater is more fun than fun.
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I've been doing a pale imitation of Bill Murray for most of my career.