Top Tom Hanks Quotes - Quotesmemo.com

Tom Hanks Biography

Thomas Jeffrey Hanks (born July 9, 1956) is an American actor and filmmaker. Hanks is known for his comedic and dramatic roles in such films as Splash (1984), Big (1988), Turner & Hooch (1989), A League of Their Own (1992), Sleepless in Seattle (1993), Apollo 13 (1995), Saving Private Ryan (1998), You've Got Mail (1998), The Green Mile (1999), Cast Away (2000), Road to Perdition (2002), Cloud Atlas (2012), Captain Phillips (2013), Saving Mr. Banks (2013), and Sully (2016). He has also starred in the Robert Langdon film series, and voices Sheriff Woody in the Toy Story film series.

Read about Tom Hanks in Wikipedia

Random Authors

Tom Hanks Quotes

Everyone says, "You have to work at relationships. " Sometimes you've got to work, but if you're working 60 percent of the time and only enjoying it 40 percent. . .

Enjoy, Everyone, Percent, Relationships, Sometimes

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.

Battle, Battles, Different, Fighting, Loneliness, Ones

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

Fun, Gets, Play, Scotland, Yard

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

Imagination, Order, Restore, Storyteller, Storytellers

I try not to lie to people - the only way to control the way you're perceived is to tell the truth.

Control, Lying, People, Perceived, Trying

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

Dying, Life, Mama, Part, Said, Wish

I don't cause riots, but I do cause confusion. People freeze when they spot me.

Cause, Causes, Confusion, People, Spot

It's not a mid-life crisis. It's a mid-life disaster. A mid-life crisis is when you wake up with everything and you go "I have everything but I'm still unhappy. "

Crisis, Disaster, Unhappy, Wake Up

I think I'm lucky that I had kids as spread out as much as I did, 'cause my son, my oldest, was born when I was 21. And my youngest is 15 now. He was born when I was 40, you know?

Born, Kids, Know, Son, Think, Thinking

Shake it off and move on.

Move, Moving, Shake, Shakes

All the kids are gone. It's the greatest thing that has ever happened to Mr. and Mrs. Tom Hanks. I'll tell you that right now. Second greatest after having the kids in the first place. When they go, holy smoke, it's like you're dating again. It's fantastic. Also, we were doing an awful lot of work.

Dating, Gone, Greatest, Kids, Tom

I'm glad I didn't have to fight in any war. I'm glad I didn't have to pick up a gun. I'm glad I didn't get killed or kill somebody. I hope my kids enjoy the same lack of manhood.

Kids, Killed, Manhood, Military, Same, War

When I was 21 years old, I had a job playing Santa Claus in a shopping centre in Sacramento. I was rail thin, so it's not like I was a traditional Santa Claus even then. I had a square stomach; that was the shape of the sofa cushion that I had stuffed into my pants.

Centre, Jobs, Like, Square, Squares, Years

I hope my kids understand that they're not operating in a normal world. And yet there are principles they have to adhere to that are normal - like decency, choosing between right and wrong, and honesty. That's important stuff, whether you're flying first-class or not.

Class, Honesty, Kids, Operating, Stuff, Understand

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

Concept, Cynicism, Optimism, Think, Thinking, Understand

There's such an advantage to being involved in the day-to-day details of each other's lives. It's a marvelous fabric to exist in.

Advantage, Details, Exist, Fabric, Involved

I will entertain anything; it doesn't matter. You know, it's not obviously about the price, it's not about who, it's kind of about when and what. It's material, that's all.

Entertain, Host, Kind, Know, Material, Matter

Help and you will abolish apathy-the void that is so quickly filled by ignorance and evil.

Apathy, Evil, Ignorance, Void

I was never intimidated by change. I was like an army brat who had lived all around the world.

Army, Brat, Change, Lived, World

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

Come, Dead, Horse, School

1