Reading a script is usually as exciting as reading a boilerplate legal document, so when you read one that makes you feel… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are. — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
I start at square one with every role. If I let myself feel pressure, it would crush me. The truth is that… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
The most accurate representation of how I feel is that I'm incredibly lucky to be working in this structure where people get… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
As a young man, even if I was going to see a play or a film by myself, I didn't feel like… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
Everybody has something that chews them up and, for me, that thing was always loneliness. The cinema has the power to make… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
If you can feel like a good man in your 40s, you can feel like a better man in your 50s, a… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
I've worked with people who are much further to the left than I am and much further to the right than I am. At… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
In the 1998 Oscars, I found myself in the bathroom in a stall, next to Tom Selleck. So I leaned over and I said… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
Mass-market movies have become about one thing. They kind of declare themselves right off the bat. . . . But when I go to… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
If you look at romantic comedies as pieces of commerce, the audience is looking for wish fulfillment. — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
Some people are cowards... I think by and large a third of people are villains, a third are cowards, and a third are heroes.… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
I try to do what I call the three E's - educate, entertain, and enlighten. If you don't entertain, no one will show up.… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
We're part of a greater humanity and we can actually affect the world by the choices we make once we leave the theater. — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
Reading a script is usually as exciting as reading a boilerplate legal document, so when you read one that makes you feel as if… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
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. — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
