Tom Hanks quote: "But look, I was born in 1956, the peak year for births in US history. I think I'm very representative of many of the thought processes my generation have been through and, by and large, people of my age have had their imprint planted on the consciousness of western society for a long time."

There's this misconception that the Navy is this cruise ship, and you get to go out and sail aro...
TOM HANKS

Everybody has something that chews them up and, for me, that thing was always loneliness. The cinema...
TOM HANKS

Some people are cowards... I think by and large a third of people are villains, a third are cowards,...
TOM HANKS

I understand the concept of optimism. But I think with me what you get is a lack of cynicism.
TOM HANKS

'Larry Crowne' is about as bummed out a human being as one can be when he loses his job. Wha...
TOM HANKS

The same way that I know that I'll never do a movie as good or as celebrated as 'Forrest Gum...
TOM HANKS

I had to say no to 'Fantasy Island' back when I was doing 'Bosom Buddies.'
TOM HANKS

May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.
TOM HANKS

My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know t...
TOM HANKS

My TV show had been cancelled; nothing else had gone anywhere; some alliances I had made petered out...
TOM HANKS

You cannot look up at the night sky on the Planet Earth and not wonder what it's like to be up t...
TOM HANKS

By and large, the making of motion pictures is all about, 'Let's ratchet it up.' And I a...
TOM HANKS

The most accurate representation of how I feel is that I'm incredibly lucky to be working in thi...
TOM HANKS

If you look at romantic comedies as pieces of commerce, the audience is looking for wish fulfillment...
TOM HANKS

A hero is somebody who voluntarily walks into the unknown.
TOM HANKS

When I was 21 years old, I had a job playing Santa Claus in a shopping centre in Sacramento. I was r...
TOM HANKS

I have high blood sugars, and Type 2 diabetes is not going to kill me. But I just have to eat right,...
TOM HANKS

When I work, a lot of times I have to lose weight, and I do that, but in my regular life I was not e...
TOM HANKS

Now, learning how to make a movie is something you can figure out in about an afternoon. The physics...
TOM HANKS

There isn't any great mystery about me. What I do is glamorous and has an awful lot of white-hot...
TOM HANKS

I have gone through so many examinations of what a hero is, between the World War II stuff and the a...
TOM HANKS

If there are nine guys auditioning and they're all gorgeous, I have an advantage, because gorgeo...
TOM HANKS

And I'm not apolitical - I'm very specific in my politics. But a lot of the time it's no...
TOM HANKS

Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there i...
TOM HANKS

Growing up in northern California has had a big influence on my love and respect for the outdoors. W...
TOM HANKS

I think 80 percent of the population are really great, caring people who will help you and tell you ...
TOM HANKS

The nature of the movies is different than it was five years ago, and they're all driven by the ...
TOM HANKS

Actors with political views are a dime a dozen.
TOM HANKS

One thing that was amazing about World War II was that everybody signed up for the duration plus six...
TOM HANKS

Eating everything you want is not that much fun. When you live a life with no boundaries, theres l...
TOM HANKS

I'm glad I didn't have to fight in any war. I'm glad I didn't have to pick up a gun. I'm glad I didn...
TOM HANKS

Life is like a box of chocolates... you never know what you're gonna get.
TOM HANKS

What we're doing with Band of Brothers is trying to put it into human terms, so it is not just a...
TOM HANKS

We don't have a host and it's hard to vote yourself off the island when you're the only one on it.
TOM HANKS

If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. It's the hard that makes it great.
TOM HANKS

At the end of the day it's got to be a good movie, it's got to be a funny movie, and it'...
TOM HANKS

When I was growing up, everybody in charge, my parents and teachers, had all survived the war, and t...
TOM HANKS

I do not want to admit to the world that I can be a bad person. It is just that I don't want any...
TOM HANKS

I am who I am, and I think I have a good nature, by and large. But if someone takes advantage of tha...
TOM HANKS

I don't cause riots, but I do cause confusion. People freeze when they spot me.
TOM HANKS

But I also think all of the great stories in literature deal with loneliness. Sometimes it's by ...
TOM HANKS

It's always a combination of physics and poetry that I find inspiring. It's hard to wrap you...
TOM HANKS

My kid could get a bad X-ray and I could get a call from the doctor saying I have something growing ...
TOM HANKS

...childish, selfish, immature - that's right, I am. But do you know how much money I make for think...
TOM HANKS

Acting still rings my bell as much as it did in high school. Plus, I can now indulge my interests as...
TOM HANKS

Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon
TOM HANKS

Who knows what I would have ended up doing with my time if it wasn't for Mr. Farnsworth.
TOM HANKS

The Polar Express.
TOM HANKS

That's what's nice about directing a film and having it done: There's nothing more I can do about it...
TOM HANKS

I will entertain anything; it doesn't matter. You know, it's not obviously about the price, it's not...
TOM HANKS

If you can feel like a good man in your 40s, you can feel like a better man in your 50s, a Superman ...
TOM HANKS

as realistic as possible.
TOM HANKS

I have just two questions: What will be the mission? And can I go?
TOM HANKS

Well, ... the question would be why?
TOM HANKS

Once humankind has been some place and found it entrancing, they always go back, ... I think in the ...
TOM HANKS

There is something basic about protecting land by taking it off the market. People should be able to...
TOM HANKS

Prior to Saving Private Ryan I never worked with men. I was always working with some babe, and it wa...
TOM HANKS

I don't know. People always think that there has got to be a dark side to everyone, a closet with sk...
TOM HANKS

My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels / we know th...
TOM HANKS

The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essent...
TOM HANKS

My name's Forrest Gump. People call me Forrest Gump.
TOM HANKS

I must say that I do wrestle with the amount of money I make, but at the end of the day what am I go...
TOM HANKS

President Kennedy: Congratulations. How do you feel?
Forrest Gump: I gotta pee.
TOM HANKS

My favorite traditional Christmas movie that I like to watch is All Quiet on the Western Front. It's...
TOM HANKS

If you have to have a job in this world, a high-priced movie star is a pretty good gig.
TOM HANKS

[referring to Apple Computer]
He got me invested in some kinda fruit company.
TOM HANKS

It's always a combination of physics and poetry that I find inspiring. It's hard to wrap your head a...
TOM HANKS

You guys should do a story on the tuxedo wars that go on if you're nominated,
TOM HANKS

E-mail is far more convenient than the telephone, as far as I'm concerned. I would throw my phone aw...
TOM HANKS

[It's not like the brass ring has been completely out of reach. Besides the buzz that surrounded] Ra...
TOM HANKS

As long as you as an individual... can convince yourself that in order to move forward as best you c...
TOM HANKS

The shading and the light and its starting to look crisp and clean it looks surreal and real, it had...
TOM HANKS

There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a mo...
TOM HANKS

There was nothing to react to except wind and trees [in Cast Away]. It was like making a silent movi...
TOM HANKS

As a boy I'd often spend my days biking on riverbeds and arroyos and come home exhausted. I realize ...
TOM HANKS

From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle; we just decided...
TOM HANKS

There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk f...
TOM HANKS

I think I'm lucky that I had kids as spread out as much as I did, 'cause my son, my oldest, ...
TOM HANKS

Repertory theater is all about being part of the whole, one of the many colors in this vast palette.
TOM HANKS

If I was to direct Ron Howard, I guarantee you, I would put him through a living hell every day. I w...
TOM HANKS

You learn more from getting your butt kicked than getting it kissed.
TOM HANKS

Even if a story has nothing to do with my life, if I can recognise something of myself in the charac...
TOM HANKS

There's a small percentage of people who can act. There's a small percentage who get to do t...
TOM HANKS

There's millions of survivors out there; make it one million and one.
TOM HANKS

Some people go to bed at night thinking, 'That was a good day.' I am one of those who worrie...
TOM HANKS

Tweeting is like sending out cool telegrams to your friends once a week.
TOM HANKS

I've talked to a number of actors who have gained weight for roles, and just the sheer physical ...
TOM HANKS

The desert, when the sun comes up...I couldn't tell where heaven stopped and the Earth began.
TOM HANKS

I remember the first time he saw 'Saving Private Ryan,' ... That was special to him because of his n...
TOM HANKS

I collect watches because I'm always late, and I need to know exactly how late I'm going to ...
COLIN HANKS

'Lucky' is for laughs, and there's really nothing funny that I'm doing on 'Dexte...
COLIN HANKS

I didn't want to come up with some generic Johnny Bravo type name. I'm not that cool, so I m...
COLIN HANKS

No matter where you are in your life, whatever set of people you're with, it all still breaks do...
COLIN HANKS

He has confessed to setting out these poisons. I told him it was grossly irresponsible and I also to...
KEN HANKS

I played bass guitar in high school and in college and then I actually fractured my thumb, so my bas...
COLIN HANKS

I don't need to know how they make Coca-Cola. I think it tastes just fine not knowing what the i...
COLIN HANKS

The kids performed beyond my wildest expectations.
CHRIS HANKS

Keep in my mind my dad didn't become a huge, huge mega actor until I was halfway through high sc...
COLIN HANKS

A baby's existence for the first three months is a one-way street. One person is doing all the w...
COLIN HANKS

I've been able to find just as much interesting, exciting music through the Internet and iTunes....
COLIN HANKS

It's very important for the real estate community, as well, to have good schools. Overall, you might...
DENIS HANKS

Over the last year, the foundation has had many discussions about what to do with that Cedarville la...
DENIS HANKS

It's hard to say if companies would leave, but attracting companies in would be an issue, if they se...
DENIS HANKS

It's a very important issue to the community and the business community.
DENIS HANKS

Plymouth has 62,000 acres of land, of which 26,000 acres are tax exempt. Creating a more diverse tax...
DENIS HANKS

Religion theme aside, most of the time I'm in some sort of comedy and I'm a straight man and...
COLIN HANKS

Always stand up for what yo believe in... even if it means standing alone.
KIM HANKS

Almost the entire world is asleep. Those who are awake live in constant amazement.
TOM HANKS, JOE VS. THE VOLCANO

Every human being is trying to say something to others. Trying to cry out I am alive, notice me! Spe...
MARION D. HANKS

Both destiny and free will exist simultaneously. You are destined to be given some opportunities but...
TOM TOM

During times of hardship people find happiness in simplest pleasures
TOM TOM

Am I good enough?
Trust.
TOM

The demons you have are what motivate you to make your art. This is what drives the detective, this ...
TOM REISS

Really, coaching is simplicity. It's getting players to play better than they think that they ca...
TOM LANDRY

Talk is over-rated as a means of settling disputes.
TOM CRUISE

Nothing ends nicely, that's why it ends.
TOM CRUISE

Have you ever gotten the feeling that you aren't completely embarassed yet, but you glimpse tomo...
TOM CRUISE

When I first started out all the attention could be a bit unnerving, especially when people stared. ...
TOM CRUISE

I've spent many birthdays on a movie set, all great days.
TOM CRUISE

I've always had the same values. Family for me has always been important. When I shoot, everybod...
TOM CRUISE

When I'm promoting a film, I'm not going to get caught up in anything else, and that include...
TOM CRUISE

Whether it's making a film or raising my children, personally I'm striving to do the right t...
TOM CRUISE

I like to work with people that I like hanging out with, that I admire, that are really smart and ta...
TOM CRUISE

If I don't talk about my religion, if I say I'm not discussing it or different humanitarian ...
TOM CRUISE

Saddam has committed many crimes against humanity and against his own people.
TOM CRUISE

What I find sometimes that is tricky is if actors are using too much of their own life in a picture,...
TOM CRUISE

I'm always around my mother and sisters. I always wanted to be a father, a husband.
TOM CRUISE

As a young actor, people were trying to define who I was before I really knew that for myself. But I...
TOM CRUISE

The thing about film-making is I give it everything, that's why I work so hard. I always tell yo...
TOM CRUISE

The exciting part of acting, I don't know how else to explain it, are those moments when you sur...
TOM CRUISE

I've never made a film that I didn't believe in, you know? However the picture turns out, I&...
TOM CRUISE

I didn't become an actor to have power, but it just happens that I have it and so I have a lot o...
TOM CRUISE

I've never done work for money ever. If your choices are based on grosses and the film doesn'...
TOM CRUISE

Do I make mistakes? Yeah.
TOM CRUISE

I've learned to relax more. Everybody feels pressure in what they do, maybe mine is just a littl...
TOM CRUISE

I go without sleep, I just go hard.
TOM CRUISE

When you have to cope with a lot of problems, you're either going to sink or you're going to...
TOM CRUISE

Football is unconditional love.
TOM BRADY

My favorite meal has always been fried chicken.
TOM WATSON

The dream is to keep surprising yourself, never mind the audience.
TOM HIDDLESTON

Eighteenth-century doctors prescribed sugar pills for nearly everything: heart problems, headache, c...
TOM REISS

Treat everyone with respect and kindness. Period. No exceptions.
KIANA TOM

Good things, when short, are twice as good.
TOM STOPPARD

Time is short, life is short, there's a lot to know. So I skip the entertainers in the newspaper...
TOM STOPPARD

The thing that happens remarkably often is that the people who are writing a dissertation believe th...
TOM STOPPARD

I'm offended by things and take pathetic little stands against them.
TOM STOPPARD

My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.
TOM STOPPARD

The text loses its virginity simply by being staged: it's no longer the abstract ideal version; ...
TOM STOPPARD

I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones...
TOM STOPPARD

Any revival in which I am involved is liable to change.
TOM STOPPARD

Hotel rooms inhabit a separate moral universe.
TOM STOPPARD

All your life, you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye. An...
TOM STOPPARD

Theatre is a series of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster.
TOM STOPPARD

The whole philosophy of modern times is to dissolve distinctions between individuals and deal with t...
TOM STOPPARD

For me, human rights simply endorse a view of life and a set of moral values that are perfectly clea...
TOM STOPPARD

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.
TOM STOPPARD

Procrastination is probably my worst habit out of many. Especially when it comes to paperwork.
TOM CONTI

I love what I do. I take great pride in what I do. And I can't do something halfway, three-quart...
TOM CRUISE

Mentally, the only players who survive in the pros are the ones able to manage all their responsibil...
TOM BRADY

Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day - it all...
TOM BRADY

Every man should know, if you're comfortable and you like it, you should do it. Everyone always ...
TOM BRADY

The only thing I ever wanted to be was a professional football player.
TOM BRADY

I'm never going to be fast, and nobody will ever mistake me for being fast.
TOM BRADY

So many guys are so conservative with their hair, and I always joke with all my buddies when they me...
TOM BRADY

If I have something to say, I want it to be meaningful.
TOM BRADY

My job is to play quarterback, and I'm going to do that the best way I know how, because I owe t...
TOM BRADY

There's not much time to unwind, but you know what, it's because I love what I do. I look fo...
TOM BRADY

I think the great part about what I do is that there's a scoreboard. At the end of every week, y...
TOM BRADY

I don't think any country is perfect. It's our responsibility to do the best we can do to ch...
TOM BRADY

You have to believe in your process. You have to believe in the things that you are doing to help th...
TOM BRADY

The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.
TOM BRADY

When you're one of the leaders of the team, there are no days off.
TOM BRADY

I was the kid that was the 199th pick that never had the body for it. People didn't think I'...
TOM BRADY

Geometric shapes hold an energy pattern, and scientists did some experiments which say certain geome...
TOM DELONGE

I just love working hard. I love being part of a team; I love working toward a common goal.
TOM BRADY

What the United States needs to do at this point is reaffirm our commitment that Assad must go and t...
TOM COTTON

So rather than face the bitter truth, China has placed severe restrictions on the Internet and enlis...
TOM LANTOS

I think these movies are definitely comedies. It's quite difficult to take a superhero movie ser...
TOM HOLLAND

Every chef has his treats. By that, I mean bits and pieces from things you're working on - crust...
TOM DOUGLAS

I've gotten very good at scheduling my life, scheduling the scene and preparing myself for knowi...
TOM CRUISE

I grew up watching 'Superman.' As a child, when I first learned to dive into a swimming pool...
TOM HIDDLESTON

Songs really are like a form of time travel because they really have moved forward in a bubble. Ever...
TOM WAITS

Catfish has a nice firm texture and mild flavor.
TOM DOUGLAS

You have to enable and empower people to make decisions independent of you. As I've learned, eac...
TOM RIDGE

America's health care system is in crisis precisely because we systematically neglect wellness a...
TOM HARKIN

My wife and I decided to try and kick start our kitchens to a $15 minimum wage for cooks. I've p...
TOM DOUGLAS

I think we're very uptight in America. You have to remember that we're descended from Purita...
TOM FORD

I have a weakness for watches. I have to stop myself buying more.
TOM JONES

We are set to make very bad history.
TOM WILSON

These days an income is something you can't live without - or within.
TOM WILSON

If I had a nickel for every time I said 'Why me?' I'd have probably said 'Why me?...
TOM WILSON

What this country needs is a credit card for charging things to experience.
TOM WILSON

The waist is a terrible thing to mind.
TOM WILSON

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
TOM WILSON

If you spend all of your time racing ahead to the future, you're liable to discover you've l...
TOM WILSON

Many of us are more capable than some of us... but none of us is as capable as all of us!
TOM WILSON

Happiness doesn't depend on how much you have to enjoy, but how much you enjoy what you have.
TOM WILSON

There's no future in spending our present worrying about our past.
TOM WILSON

Nobody got where they are today by living for tomorrow.
TOM WILSON

About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation.
TOM WILSON

But look, I was born in 1956, the peak year for births in US history. I think I'm very representative of many of the thought processes my generation have been through and, by and large, people of my age have had their imprint planted on the consciousness of western society for a long time.

Tom Hanks

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