Tom Hanks Quotes
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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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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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Mass-market movies have become about one thing. They kind of declare themselves right off the bat. . . . But when I go to see (a film), I want to be surprised. I want to see something I never expected. And when you get that, it should be celebrated.
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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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Believing is seeing and seeing is believing.
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The power of the individual is as powerful as the universe is infinite.
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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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Work in the theater is more fun than fun.
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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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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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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 understand the concept of optimism. But I think with me what you get is a lack of cynicism.
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My job has always been to hold a mirror up to nature.
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Making a film is to make sure that everybody looks forward to coming to work.
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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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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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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 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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I've been doing a pale imitation of Bill Murray for most of my career.
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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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I know what I have to do now. I gotta keep breathing. Because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring?
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It's just as hard staying happily married as it is doing movies.