Tom Hanks Quotes
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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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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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I just know that every man I kill the farther away from home I feel.
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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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Believing is seeing and seeing is believing.
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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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Making a film is to make sure that everybody looks forward to coming to work.
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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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If I have no connection with the character, then it's all fake - it's just blah, blah, blah.
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If I stopped having passion, I'd be done.
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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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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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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 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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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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My job has always been to hold a mirror up to nature.
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I hope my kids understand that they're not operating in a normal world. And yet there are principles they have to adhere to that are normal - like decency, choosing between right and wrong, and honesty. That's important stuff, whether you're flying first-class or not.
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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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It's just as hard staying happily married as it is doing movies.
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The pleasure of working with somebody who's an actor is they don't waste time with stuff that doesn't matter.
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I've been doing a pale imitation of Bill Murray for most of my career.
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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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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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If they could offer up a way to go to the moon that wouldn't kill you, I'd sign up.