I try to do what I call the three E's - educate, entertain, and enlighten. If you don't entertain, no one will… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
I'm not looking for anything. If you start looking for something specific, then you take providence right out of it. You can't… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
If not for John Adams leading a revolution against Great Britain...This would be the BAFTAs. — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
If I have no connection with the character, then it's all fake - it's just blah, blah, blah. — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
Before you go into what is essentially a competition, you have to have that confidence. You have to ask yourself, "Are they… — 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
In the creative process you come to loggerheads and you just have to keep the process moving forward, even if that requires… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
Everyone says, "You have to work at relationships." Sometimes you've got to work, but if you're working 60 percent of the time… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
I've made quite a number of movies like Castaway and a few others where I'm the only guy in the movie and… — 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'm not saying I'm not bummed if a movie doesn't do well, but that isn't the final analysis of whether it's any… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
Eating everything you want is not that much fun. When you live a life with no boundaries, there's less joy. If you… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
I am who I am, and I think I have a good nature, by and large. But if someone takes advantage of… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
All that most parents hope is that their children are happy, funny, well adjusted, and have a passion for something in their… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
Help, and you will make a huge impact in the life of the street, the town, the country and our planet. If… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
It's difficult to say no sometimes. I often hear, "They'll really take care of you," or "Someone else is going to take… — 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
