Tom Hanks Quotes - Page 2

I understand the concept of optimism. But I think with me what you get is a lack of cynicism.

If you can feel like a good man in your 40s, you can feel like a better man in your 50s, a Superman in your 60s, and maybe a Spider-Man in your 70s.

Eating everything you want is not that much fun. When you live a life with no boundaries, there's less joy. If you can eat anything you want to, what's the fun in eating anything you want to?

You have to adhere to a philosophy that the life unexamined is not worth living, because otherwise you're just living from day to day and you don't have any real sense of yourself or where you are.

Shake it off and move on.

Without question, we make choices - and those choices have consequences. So can you control your own destiny? To a degree, certainly. Must you have faith in serendipity? Without question, you'd better. Otherwise you're foolish.

There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while.

Believing is seeing and seeing is believing.

We are all God's animated cartoons.

You don't necessarily go in to talk to the person to try to find some secret key to the lock.

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."

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.

Some people go to bed at night thinking, 'That was a good day.' I am one of those who worries and asks, 'How did I screw up today?'

Reading a script is usually as exciting as reading a boilerplate legal document, so when you read one that makes you feel as if you're seeing the movie, you know it's something different.

I try not to lie to people - the only way to control the way you're perceived is to tell the truth.

Every job requires a certain riding of a horse.

Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal.

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.

When you try to bring a story to life, it starts in your head and you see possibilities for it, but it's just one damn thing after another.

In your mid-30s, it’s time to start playing guys of compromise. And as you get older, men of bitter compromise.

The reason most of us go to the movies is to be involved in someone else's moral dilemma.

And then it was like, wait, you can go to college and study theater? And act in plays? This is almost a racket, you know. And then when the opportunity came along to do it professionally, I thought I'd won the lottery.

The "Toy Story" films accomplish what timeless classics aim for - innocent characters who face an endless trail of adventures.

Repertory theater is all about being part of the whole, one of the many colors in this vast palette.

Tweeting is like sending out cool telegrams to your friends once a week.