Tom Hanks Quotes
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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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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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The power of the individual is as powerful as the universe is infinite.
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I've been doing a pale imitation of Bill Murray for most of my career.
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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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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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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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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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Believing is seeing and seeing is believing.
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Making a film is to make sure that everybody looks forward to coming to work.
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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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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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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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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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I know how the Academy Awards works: It's a card game, and I'm in the toss-up category.
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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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Work in the theater is more fun than fun.
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I'm not looking for anything. If you start looking for something specific, then you take providence right out of it. You can't completely control it. Otherwise you'd make the same kind of movie over and over again, which some people say I've done.
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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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The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are.
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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.