Tom Hanks

I've worked with people who are much further to the left than I am and much further to the right than I…

— Tom Hanks

In the 1998 Oscars, I found myself in the bathroom in a stall, next to Tom Selleck. So I leaned over and…

— Tom Hanks

Mass-market movies have become about one thing. They kind of declare themselves right off the bat. . . . But when I…

— Tom Hanks

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

— Tom Hanks

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

— Tom Hanks

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

But actors with political views are a dime a dozen.

— Tom Hanks

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

Saying no to something is actually much more powerful than saying yes.

— Tom Hanks

If things were easy to find, they wouldn’t be worth finding.

— Tom Hanks

Reading a script is usually as exciting as reading a boilerplate legal document, so when you read one that makes you feel…

— Tom Hanks

Let's not pretend there isn't a huge industry driven by the choices made by editors and writers who decide what a story…

— Tom Hanks

It just so happens that my body type and my lifestyle gives me a preclusion for high blood sugars.

— Tom Hanks

Are you crying? There's no crying. There's no crying in baseball.

— Tom Hanks

My son is a gentleman and a professional who is pursuing something difficult. Yet the only thing he has ever asked me…

— Tom Hanks

Even if a story has nothing to do with my life, if I can recognise something of myself in the character and…

— Tom Hanks

E-mail is far more convenient than the telephone, as far as I'm concerned. I would throw my phone away if I could…

— Tom Hanks

Now, learning how to make a movie is something you can figure out in about an afternoon. The physics of it, the…

— Tom Hanks

Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal.

— Tom Hanks

The power of the individual is as powerful as the universe is infinite.

— Tom Hanks

There's a small percentage of people who can act. There's a small percentage who get to do this for a living. There's…

— Tom Hanks

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

“You learn more from getting your butt kicked than getting it kissed.”

— Tom Hanks

Oprah Winfrey today you are surrounded by nothing but love.

— Tom Hanks

When you try to bring a story to life, it starts in your head and you see possibilities for it, but it's…

— Tom Hanks