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
This is what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination.
Yeah! I got type-two diabetes! I'm sure there's going to be some media scandal now, saying I got it because I gained and lost weight for movie parts or something - but I doubt that.
I'm not a smart man, but I know what love is.
We are all God's animated cartoons.
Are you crying? There's no crying. There's no crying in baseball.
There's no substitute for a great love who says, 'No matter what's wrong with you, you're welcome at this table.
I know the Pope is opposed to the use of condoms. All I can say is, I am a spiritual man and I've been happily married for 21 years. I don't even know what a condom is anymore.
When I was growing up, everybody in charge, my parents and teachers, had all survived the war, and they talked about the war like it was the Kraken - you know, this huge beast that roamed the earth during their formative years.
It was incredibly cheesy set with torches [TV's Survivor] - it looked like the lobby of the Enchanted Tiki Room at Disneyland. And here as some guy pulling names out of a coconut, and I said, 'This is the thing that has made American mass media stop in their tracks?
I am who I am, and I think I have a good nature, by and large. But if someone takes advantage of that good nature, well then, you know, I'm not that nice a guy.
It just so happens that my body type and my lifestyle gives me a preclusion for high blood sugars.
I come from the school of That Horse is Not Dead.
Dear God, thank you for my life. I forgot how big and wonderful it is.
Being politically correct means always having to say you're sorry. Believe me, the power and pleasure and the emotion of this moment is a constant speed of light.