Tom Hanks

If I stopped having passion, I'd be done.

— Tom Hanks

Actors with political views are a dime a dozen.

— Tom Hanks

I don't think anybody's mind's gonna be changed.

— Tom Hanks

I've made over 20 movies, and 5 of them are good.

— Tom Hanks

I come from the school of That Horse is Not Dead.

— Tom Hanks

Shake it off and move on.

— Tom Hanks

Work in the theater is more fun than fun.

— Tom Hanks

Believing is seeing and seeing is believing.

— Tom Hanks

Even the simplest choice can make a jaw-dropping difference in our world.

— Tom Hanks

This is what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination.

— Tom Hanks

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

— Tom Hanks

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

— Tom Hanks

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

— Tom Hanks

Dear God, thank you for my life. I forgot how big and wonderful it is.

— Tom Hanks

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

— Tom Hanks

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

— Tom Hanks

The nature of the movies is different than it was five years ago, and they're all driven by the possibilities of CGI,…

— 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

“...childish, selfish, immature - that's right, I am. But do you know how much money I make for thinking this way?”

— Tom Hanks

I know what I have to do now, I've got to keep breathing because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what…

— Tom Hanks

I always wanted to play Lestrade of Scotland Yard 'cause he's a buffoon that gets to wear a uniform. I thought that…

— Tom Hanks

I think I'm lucky that I had kids as spread out as much as I did, 'cause my son, my oldest, was…

— Tom Hanks

We are still in the position of waking up and having a choice. Do I make the world better today somehow, or…

— Tom Hanks

In hotel rooms, I strip and walk around naked. It's as close as I can get to a feeling of anonymity and…

— 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

All the kids are gone. It's the greatest thing that has ever happened to Mr. and Mrs. Tom Hanks. I'll tell you…

— Tom Hanks

And then it was like, wait, you can go to college and study theater? And act in plays? This is almost a…

— Tom Hanks

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

— 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

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

— Tom Hanks

When I was 21 years old, I had a job playing Santa Claus in a shopping centre in Sacramento. I was rail…

— Tom Hanks

Once humankind has been some place and found it entrancing, they always go back, I think in the history of the human…

— Tom Hanks

I start at square one with every role. If I let myself feel pressure, it would crush me. The truth is that…

— Tom Hanks

Before you go into what is essentially a competition, you have to have that confidence. You have to ask yourself, "Are they…

— Tom Hanks

I know that my work in this case is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with…

— Tom Hanks

When you're going to try and have people talk in a room and actually reflect life as we know it and have…

— Tom Hanks

Motion pictures are just beginning to live up to their true potential of being immersive experience - going from beyond black and…

— Tom Hanks

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

People always think that there has got to be a dark side to everyone, a closet with skeletons, demons under the bed.…

— Tom Hanks

“Hey, I got an idea, let’s go to the movies. I wanna go to the movies, I want to take you all…

— Tom Hanks