Tom Hanks Quotes
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The power of the individual is as powerful as the universe is infinite.
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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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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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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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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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Believing is seeing and seeing is believing.
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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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Work in the theater is more fun than fun.
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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.
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Making a film is to make sure that everybody looks forward to coming to work.
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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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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 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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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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My work is really a blast. When it stops being a blast, then it ain't no fun no more!
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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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I just know that every man I kill the farther away from home I feel.
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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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My job has always been to hold a mirror up to nature.
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I've been doing a pale imitation of Bill Murray for most of my career.
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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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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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It's just as hard staying happily married as it is doing movies.