Top 91 Quotes by Tom Hanks

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.

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.

If you look at romantic comedies as pieces of commerce, the audience is looking for wish fulfillment.

I think it's better to feel good than to look good.

My job has always been to hold a mirror up to nature.

It's always a combination of physics and poetry that I find inspiring. It's hard to wrap your head around things like the Hubble scope.

A hero is somebody who voluntarily walks into the unknown.

I always wanted to play Lestrade of Scotland Yard 'cause he's a buffoon that gets to wear a uniform. I thought that would be fun.

It's just as hard... staying happily married as it is doing movies.

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.