Quotes by Tom Hanks

“The more men I kill, the more far away from home I feel -- Saving Private Ryan”

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

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

“If you're funny, if there's something that makes you laugh, then every day's going to be okay.”

“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.”

“Its supposed to be hard. If it wasnt hard, everybody would do it. Its the hard that makes it great.”

“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...”

“My favorite traditional Christmas movie that I like to watch is All Quiet on the Western Front. It's just not December without that movie in my house.”

“Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose ei...”

“As long as you as an individual... can convince yourself that in order to move forward as best you can you have to be optimistic, you can be described as 'one of the faithful,' one of those people ...”

“When I work, a lot of times I have to lose weight, and I do that, but in my regular life I was not eating right, and I was not getting enough exercise. But by the nature of my diet and that lifesty...”

“If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. It's the hard that makes it great.”

“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 got to make people think, 'Hey, I couldn't have spent my time any better.'”

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

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

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

“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.”

“Hey, I got an idea, lets go to the movies. I wanna go to the movies, I want to take you all to the movies. Lets go and experience the art of the cinema. Lets begin with the Scream Of Fear, and we a...”

“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 ruth...”

“It’s supposed to be hard. If it wasn’t hard, everybody would do it. It’s the hard that makes it great.”