Tom Hanks Quotes
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I don't follow football, I just love the name Aston Villa. Here in England you have other footballing entities like Manchester and Arsenal and Chelsea
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My son is a gentleman and a professional who is pursuing something difficult. Yet the only thing he has ever asked me for is advice - never favors. He has just said, "What do you think I should do, Dad?" It's extraordinary to me that my son would listen to and have faith in whatever wisdom I can offer.
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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."
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The pleasure of working with somebody who's an actor is they don't waste time with stuff that doesn't matter.
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The prejudice surrounding AIDS exacts a social death which precedes the actual physical one.
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If I stopped having passion, I'd be done.
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Most people want to be able to go off and deal with their day - stop in here, run errands there - and when you can't do that, going out becomes a chore.
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E-mail is far more convenient than the telephone, as far as I'm concerned. I would throw my phone away if I could get away with it.
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It was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were supposed to be together ... and I knew it.
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Prior to Saving Private Ryan I never worked with men. I was always working with some babe, and it was always about falling in love, and it just got turned around. I'm not looking for any particular kind of story. I wait until it comes across my desk.
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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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Help and you will abolish apathy-the void that is so quickly filled by ignorance and evil.
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Everybody has something that chews them up and, for me, that thing was always loneliness. The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are.
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If you're funny, if there's something that makes you laugh, then every day's going to be okay.
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'Forrest Gump' was great, it was fabulous. It lasted much longer than anybody thought, and brought me a degree of attention that no human being on the face of the planet deserves.
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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.
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I just know that every man I kill the farther away from home I feel.
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The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are.
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Growing up in northern California has had a big influence on my love and respect for the outdoors. When I lived in Oakland, we would think nothing of driving to Half Moon Bay and Santa Cruz one day and then driving to the foothills of the Sierras the next day.
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The power of the individual is as powerful as the universe is infinite.
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We're part of a greater humanity and we can actually affect the world by the choices we make once we leave the theater.
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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 a swath of the population that are able to keep a story in their head and fight all the battles against self-consciousness and the surreal unnaturalness of acting in a movie. The technical aspects you can learn fairly quickly.
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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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We are still in the position of waking up and having a choice. Do I make the world better today somehow, or do I not bother?
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Making a film is to make sure that everybody looks forward to coming to work.
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Mama always had a way of explaining things so I could understand them.
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As an actor I am always waiting for my luck to run out.
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I had to keep breathing. Even though there was no reason to hope... I stayed alive. I kept breathing. And one day my logic was proven all wrong because the tide came in, and gave me a sail. And now, here I am. Im back... Because now i know what I have to do now. I have to keep breathing. Because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring?
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Oprah Winfrey today you are surrounded by nothing but love.
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I start at square one with every role. If I let myself feel pressure, it would crush me. 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. Sometimes that's a palpable thing, but other times it's not. No actor has control of that. All you can control is your own passion for doing the work in the first place.
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