Tom Hanks
Tom Hanks
Thomas Jeffrey "Tom" Hanks is an American actor and filmmaker. He is known for his roles in Splash, Big, Turner & Hooch, Philadelphia, Forrest Gump, Apollo 13, Saving Private Ryan, You've Got Mail, The Green Mile, Cast Away, The Da Vinci Code, Captain Phillips, and Saving Mr. Banks, as well as for his voice work in the animated Toy Story series and The Polar Express...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth9 July 1956
CityConcord, CA
CountryUnited States of America
If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. It's the hard that makes it great.
All directors should have to act and all actors should have to direct, so that they can understand all these key things that come into play with whether you can meet your day.
If things were easy to find, they wouldn’t be worth finding.
The only way you can truly control how you are seen is by being honest all the time.
A hero is somebody who voluntarily walks into the unknown.
I've worked with people who are much further to the left than I am and much further to the right than I am. At the end of the day, who gives a ... . Good for you. This is America. Vote your conscience.
Never give up because you never know what the tide will bring in the next day.
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.
I think it's better to feel good than to look good.
The average movie set is the least political arena on Earth. Nobody bothers talking about politics because, one, we all love the job so much. You don't talk about current events. You talk about old show business stories and whether or not there's gonna be French onion dip at the craft services table that day.
Life is like a box of chocolates: you never know what you're gonna get." Number Six in the Top Ten Most Famous Movie Quotes. -The Guinness Book of Film
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.
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?
In the creative process you come to loggerheads and you just have to keep the process moving forward, even if that requires jumping on a plane and flying to London. It's a good thing it's fun, otherwise it would be too much work.