Tom Hanks Quotes

• Reading a script is usually as exciting as reading a boilerplate legal document, so when you read one that makes you feel as if you’re seeing the movie, you know it’s something different.

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• No journalist has ever been in my house and no photographs have ever been taken of where I live. I don’t parade my family out for display, which is the way it will stay.

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• I do not want to admit to the world that I can be a bad person. It is just that I don’t want anyone to have false expectations. Moviemaking is a harsh, volatile business, and unless you can be ruthless, too, there’s a good chance that you are going to disappear off the scene pretty quickly.

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• But television, when I was doing it, was all about scoring. You had to make these jokes bang, do whatever you could to make the material really pop. And if it didn’t, there was something wrong with the material, or with you.

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• As a young man, even if I was going to see a play or a film by myself, I didn’t feel like I was alone. There was something that was unfolding up there that brought me into it. And I recognised that. For those two hours, it made me feel like I belonged to something really good.

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• Acting still rings my bell as much as it did in high school. Plus, I can now indulge my interests as a producer as well. My work is more fun than fun but, best of all, it’s still very scary. You are always walking some kind of high wire.

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• You cannot look up at the night sky on the Planet Earth and not wonder what it’s like to be up there amongst the stars. And I always look up at the moon and see it as the single most romantic place within the cosmos.

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• The truth is that everyone pays attention to who’s number one at the box office. And none of it matters, because the only thing that really exists is the connection the audience has with a movie.

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• I went to college because I didn’t have anywhere else to go and it was a fabulous hang. And while I was there I was exposed to this world that I didn’t know was possible.

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• And then it was like, wait, you can go to college and study theater? And act in plays? This is almost a racket, you know. And then when the opportunity came along to do it professionally, I thought I’d won the lottery.

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• But the battles against loneliness that I fought when I was 16 are very different from those I fought when I was 27, and those are very different from the ones I fight at 44.

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

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• The nature of motion capture is only going to work for certain films. It’s not going to put any other type of movies out of business.

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• Repertory theater is all about being part of the whole, one of the many colors in this vast palette.

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• My job has always been to hold a mirror up to nature.

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

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

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• Human beings do things for a reason, even if sometimes it’s the wrong reason.

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• But actors with political views are a dime a dozen.

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

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Tom Hanks (58)

Birth:	9th July, 1956
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Anchor, Director, Producer, Screenwriter

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