Tom Hanks Quotes

Even if a story has nothing to do with my life, if I can recognise something of myself in the character and think, 'Oh yeah, that's what I'd do...' Yeah, that's what I look for.

Tom Hanks

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 9, 1956

Topics

LifeCharacterMyselfStoryThink

One thing I learned about riding is to look for trouble before it happens.

Joe Davis

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If we want to revive and achieve the American Dream, we need to change a situation in which the people whose hard work makes this country run cannot earn a living wage, while bankers, speculators, and corporate elites - the real 'takers' in today's society - skim off far more than their fair share.

Stephanie Coontz

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The goal of my work is to make visible the inevitable racist assumptions held, and patterns displayed, by white people conditioned from living in a white supremacist culture.

Robin DiAngelo

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I don't stress myself about my looks. I love to laugh. I like being able to lead an interesting life.

Monica Bellucci

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Christmas lights may be the loneliest thing for me, especially if you mix them up with reindeers and sleighs. I feel alone. I feel isolated. I feel I do not belong.

Mira Nair

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With my platform, anyway, I want to try and do good things and want to help people.

Millie Bobby Brown

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You know sometimes you're in a position of risk and you feel that you can turn good or bad.

Luc Besson

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I find titles the hardest thing. I was worried that 'Waste Land' was too much of a downer. For me, 'The Crash Reel' confronts what the film is about: it's not just about the reality of a crash, it's about the extremity we all face, and what happens when life crashes on you.

Lucy Walker

LifeMeFaceRealityYouFind

Press is basically a created story. It's all just stories.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

StoryPressJustStoriesCreated

I love improvisation. You can't blame it on the writers. You can't blame it on direction. You can't blame it on the camera guy... It's you. You're on. You've got to do it, and you either sink or swim with what you've got.

Jonathan Winters

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I always feel, as a mother does, that I protect her. Who will do that when I'm gone?

Debbie Reynolds

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True luxury is being able to own your time - to be able to take a walk, sit on your porch, read the paper, not take the call, not be compelled by obligation.

Ashton Kutcher

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