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
We're part of a greater humanity and we can actually affect the world by the choices we make once we leave the… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
As a boy I'd often spend my days biking on riverbeds and arroyos and come home exhausted. I realize now how much… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
I do not want to admit to the world that I can be a bad person. It is just that I don't… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
One thing that was amazing about World War II was that everybody signed up for the duration plus six months. Fliers got… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
I love what I do for a living, it's the greatest job in the world, but you have to survive an awful… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
Back in World War II, we viewed the Japanese as ‘yellow, slant-eyed dogs’ that believed in different gods. They were out to… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
I have gone through so many examinations of what a hero is, between the World War II stuff and the astronaut stuff. — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
The Pixar people continuously amaze me. They come up with something that actually looks as though it takes place in this happy,… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
I hope my kids understand that they're not operating in a normal world. And yet there are principles they have to adhere… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
Motion pictures are just beginning to live up to their true potential of being immersive experience - going from beyond black and… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
I went to college because I didn't have anywhere else to go and it was a fabulous hang. And while I was… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
Larger-than-life characters make up about .01 percent of the world's population. — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
If you have to have a job in this world, a high-priced movie star is a pretty good gig. — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
We are still in the position of waking up and having a choice. Do I make the world better today somehow, or… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
I was never intimidated by change. I was like an army brat who had lived all around the world. — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
Even the simplest choice can make a jaw-dropping difference in our world. — 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
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
