Tom Hanks Quotes
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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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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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I just know that every man I kill the farther away from home I feel.
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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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Believing is seeing and seeing is believing.
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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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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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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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The reason most of us go to the movies is to be involved in someone else's moral dilemma.
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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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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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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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Making a film is to make sure that everybody looks forward to coming to work.
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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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It's just as hard staying happily married as it is doing movies.
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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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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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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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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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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've been doing a pale imitation of Bill Murray for most of my career.