Tom Hanks Quotes

     Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour.

Tom Hanks 



As long as you as an individual... can convince yourself that in order to move forward as best you can you have to be optimistic, you can be described as 'one of the faithful,' one of those people who can say, 'Well, look, something's going to happen! Let's just keep trying. Let's not give up.
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If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. It's the hard that makes it great.
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Everybody has something that chews them up and, for me, that thing was always loneliness. The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are.
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I love what I do for a living, it's the greatest job in the world, but you have to survive an awful lot of attention that you don't truly deserve and you have to live up to your professional responsibilities and I'm always trying to balance that with what is really important.
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From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle; we just decided to go.
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I don't cause riots, but I do cause confusion. People freeze when they spot me.
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E-mail is far more convenient than the telephone, as far as I'm concerned. I would throw my phone away if I could get away with it.
Tom Hanks



But I also think all of the great stories in literature deal with loneliness. Sometimes it's by way of heartbreak, sometimes it's by way of injustice, sometimes it's by way of fate. There's an infinite number of ways to examine it.
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I understand the concept of optimism. But I think with me what you get is a lack of cynicism.
Tom Hanks



If they could offer up a way to go to the moon that wouldn't kill you, I'd sign up.
Tom Hanks



May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.
Tom Hanks



And I'm not apolitical - I'm very specific in my politics. But a lot of the time it's nobody's business unless you're over at my house having dinner.
Tom Hanks



As an actor I am always waiting for my luck to run out.
Tom Hanks



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



Growing up in northern California has had a big influence on my love and respect for the outdoors. When I lived in Oakland, we would think nothing of driving to Half Moon Bay and Santa Cruz one day and then driving to the foothills of the Sierras the next day.
Tom Hanks 



But look, I was born in 1956, the peak year for births in US history. I think I'm very representative of many of the thought processes my generation have been through and, by and large, people of my age have had their imprint planted on the consciousness of western society for a long time.
Tom Hanks