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Tom Hanks Quotes

The truth is that everyone pays attention to who's number one at the box office. And none of it matters, because the only thing that really exists is the connection the audience has with a movie.

Tom Hanks

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Truth Truth Is Attention Connection

I think Australians do well here because we feel a bit naughty, like we're in America and if they only knew how much fun we were having, we'd all get thrown out, you know.

Melissa George

Fun Think Feel America You Know

I don't like to play characters that are too perfect.

Amanda Seyfried

Perfect Play Like Characters Too

For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.

Simon Wiesenthal

Good Men Evil Nothing Good Men Only

The way a woman or a man handles themselves, at a certain age I can't blame you for the way you act, because somebody didn't bring you up right, and the betterment is why I have a foundation titled Angels and Hearts. That's why I have Trey's Angels: to let women know that they are angels.

Trey Songz

Women Age Woman Man Blame You

There are things that you cannot talk to your mother and father about, there are things that you cannot talk to your children about.

Shirley Knight

Family Father Mother Children You

The pleasures of mental agility are much overstated, inevitably - as it now appears to me - by those not exclusively dependent upon them.

Tony Judt

Me Now Mental Agility Pleasures

There is no 'recycle too much.' That's an oxymoron.

Jonathan Krisel

Too Much Much Oxymoron Recycle Too

The brain process that results in a joke materializing where no joke was before remains a mystery. I'm not aware of any scholarly, scientific or neurological studies on the subject.

Dick Cavett

Brain Process Mystery Results Joke

Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.

Christopher Hitchens

Impossible Terrorism Demanding Tactic

Target is one of the best at really listening to the artist and understanding what they are about.

Christina Aguilera

Best Listening Understanding Artist

My first dream as a child was to become a pilot. My second dream was to become an astronomer, and I pursued in parallel efforts and studies in these two areas.

Claude Nicollier

Child Dream Pilot Become First Two

I think that even though some of the things on 'Humans of New York' are kind of very personal and very revealing, I think the discomfort with sharing that tends to be overwritten by the appreciation of being able to distill the experience of your life into a story and share it with other people.

Brandon Stanton

Life Experience Appreciation New York