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
It is a new technology that is revolutionary.
My name's Forrest Gump. People call me Forrest Gump.
In the early days you have a tendency to intellectualize, but you're really just trying to sound smart and score with the chicks.
The pleasure of working with somebody who's an actor is they don't waste time with stuff that doesn't matter.
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.
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?
You don't necessarily go in to talk to the person to try to find some secret key to the lock.
There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while.
In the 1998 Oscars, I found myself in the bathroom in a stall, next to Tom Selleck. So I leaned over and I said 'looks like we're a couple of peeing Toms. His angry silence is something I'll never forget.
The only way you can truly control how you are seen is by being honest all the time.
Repertory theater is all about being part of the whole, one of the many colors in this vast palette.
Help publicly. Help privately. Help make sense where sense has gone missing. Help science to solve and faith to soothe. Help, and you will abolish apathy-the void that is so quickly filled by ignorance and evil.
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.
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."