Tom Hanks Quotes

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.'

Tom Hanks

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

FunnyGoodTimeDayPeopleBetter

For a while I had a blues band in L.A., but I realized I was too optimistic to play the blues. I did not have the misery in my heart that the blues required.

John C. Reilly

HeartBluesPlayBandMiseryDid

Our goal should be to achieve joy.

Ana Castillo

JoyGoalAchieveOurShould

At the end of the day, you are judged by your character. And look, I'm proud of my record of working to help people throughout my years of public service.

Steve Scalise

CharacterServiceDayPeopleProud

You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried. If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk.

Rosalynn Carter

FailureGoalsBestDo Your BestWin

It won't happen. It would be an impossible dream. But I'd love to see 'Citizens United' overruled.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

LoveImpossibleDreamSeeHappen

L.A. is such a melting pot.

Mija

Melting PotPotMelting

An idea can be as flawless as can be, but its execution will always be full of mistakes.

Brent Scowcroft

MistakesExecutionWillAlwaysIdea

I believe very strongly that when it comes to desire, when it comes to attraction, that things are never black and white, things are very much shades of grey.

Brian Molko

Black And WhiteBelieveBlackWhite

I'm just interested in all of the different ways that a woman can be. We don't have enough, when it comes to American film, that shows all of the different complexities and ways that a woman is interesting and mysterious and dynamic and really complicated.

Brie Larson

WomanAmericanInterestingEnough

It was very important that it be done in such a way that it be executed with complete conviction. If I had done it both ways, if I was trying to cover myself in case it didn't work, then it would have been to no purpose.

Atom Egoyan

WorkMyselfPurposeTryingDoneWay

To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead.

William Hazlitt

ThinkingGoOthersFollowOverLead

Interestingly enough, there is a really different dynamic when you're directing something that somebody else has written compared to when you're directing something that you've written. And there's a good and a bad side to it. I think the bad side is that you never feel the same level of connection to the material - you just don't.

Scott Derrickson

GoodThinkFeelEnoughYouBad

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