Tom Hanks

Every job requires a certain riding of a horse.

— Tom Hanks

We are all God's animated cartoons.

— Tom Hanks

You don't necessarily go in to talk to the person to try to find some secret key to the lock.

— Tom Hanks

Larger-than-life characters make up about .01 percent of the world's population.

— Tom Hanks

If not for John Adams leading a revolution against Great Britain...This would be the BAFTAs.

— Tom Hanks

If they could offer up a way to go to the moon that wouldn't kill you, I'd sign up.

— Tom Hanks

I just know that every man I kill the farther away from home I feel.

— Tom Hanks

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

— Tom Hanks

But actors with political views are a dime a dozen.

— Tom Hanks

Mama always said, dying was a part of life. I sure wish it wasn't.

— Tom Hanks

At the end of the day it's got to be a good movie, it's got to be a funny movie, and it's…

— Tom Hanks

The truth is that everyone pays attention to who's number one at the box office. And none of it matters, because the…

— Tom Hanks

It's always a combination of physics and poetry that I find inspiring. It's hard to wrap your head around things like the…

— Tom Hanks

“In New York City real estate parlors took your money and lied to you, drug addicts relieved themselves in plain sight, and…

— Tom Hanks

The "Toy Story" films accomplish what timeless classics aim for - innocent characters who face an endless trail of adventures.

— Tom Hanks

The pleasure of working with somebody who's an actor is they don't waste time with stuff that doesn't matter.

— 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

I did a 'Love Boat!' And based on my trip on the 'Love Boat,' I said, 'I'd just as soon not do…

— Tom Hanks

My TV show had been cancelled; nothing else had gone anywhere; some alliances I had made petered out and nothing came of…

— Tom Hanks

What we're doing with Band of Brothers is trying to put it into human terms, so it is not just a flickering,…

— Tom Hanks

It was incredibly cheesy set with torches [TV's Survivor] - it looked like the lobby of the Enchanted Tiki Room at Disneyland.…

— Tom Hanks

Audiences crave something they've never seen before. That's what they want. They want to be dazzled. They want to go in either…

— Tom Hanks

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

— Tom Hanks

When I was growing up, everybody in charge, my parents and teachers, had all survived the war, and they talked about the…

— Tom Hanks

The filmmakers aren't running the studios anymore. Sometimes people who like films are making them, but by and large, they have to…

— Tom Hanks

I had to keep breathing. Even though there was no reason to hope... I stayed alive. I kept breathing. And one day…

— Tom Hanks

Oprah Winfrey today you are surrounded by nothing but love.

— Tom Hanks

Tweeting is like sending out cool telegrams to your friends once a week.

— Tom Hanks

A hero is somebody who voluntarily walks into the unknown.

— Tom Hanks

Making a film is to make sure that everybody looks forward to coming to work.

— Tom Hanks

May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

— Tom Hanks

The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are.

— Tom Hanks

Mama always had a way of explaining things so I could understand them.

— Tom Hanks

Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.

— Tom Hanks

Hold the mirror up to nature. Human behavior is worthy of examination and celebration.

— Tom Hanks

The prejudice surrounding AIDS exacts a social death which precedes the actual physical one.

— Tom Hanks

The desert, when the sun comes up...I couldn't tell where heaven stopped and the Earth began.

— Tom Hanks

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

— Tom Hanks

As an actor I am always waiting for my luck to run out.

— Tom Hanks

I would not want to live in a country that would have me as a leader in any sort of political bent.

— Tom Hanks