110+ Tom Hanks Quotes On Versatile, Endearing And Iconic

Tom Hanks is an American actor and filmmaker. He is best known for his comedic and dramatic roles in films such as Forrest Gump, Philadelphia, The Green Mile, and Cast Away. He has won two Academy Awards and has been nominated for many more. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Tom Hanks on life, love, versatile.

Top 10 Tom Hanks Quotes

1. Loneliness is to be avoided, solitude is to be sought.
2. 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.
3. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. It's the hard that makes it great.
4. It was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were supposed to be together ... and I knew it.
5. Never give up because you never know what the tide will bring in the next day.
6. I think it's better to feel good than to look good.
7. Even the simplest choice can make a jaw-dropping difference in our world.
8. The desert, when the sun comes up...I couldn't tell where heaven stopped and the Earth began.
9. There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while.
10. I know what I have to do now. I gotta keep breathing. Because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring?

Tom Hanks Short Quotes

• Mama always had a way of explaining things so I could understand them.
• The power of the individual is as powerful as the universe is infinite.
• Help and you will abolish apathy-the void that is so quickly filled by ignorance and evil.
• Hold the mirror up to nature. Human behavior is worthy of examination and celebration.
• Saying no to something is actually much more powerful than saying yes.
• Human beings do things for a reason, even if sometimes it's the wrong reason.
• I understand the concept of optimism. But I think with me what you get is a lack of cynicism.
• Houston, we have a problem.
• I just know that every man I kill the farther away from home I feel.
• The prejudice surrounding AIDS exacts a social death which precedes the actual physical one.

Tom Hanks Quotes About Life

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? — Tom Hanks

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." — Tom Hanks

Mama always said, dying was a part of life. I sure wish it wasn't. — Tom Hanks

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

Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get. — Tom Hanks

For some people, I will be Forrest Gump for the rest of my life. But that's OK; that's a good thing. — Tom Hanks

I'm not a smart man, but I know what love is. — Tom Hanks

Dear God, thank you for my life. I forgot how big and wonderful it is. — Tom Hanks

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. — Tom Hanks

My wife and I, we met making a movie. This is not just our job, it's our life. It's what we do naturally whether we're working together or not. — Tom Hanks

Tom Hanks Quotes About Love

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

There's no substitute for a great love who says, 'No matter what's wrong with you, you're welcome at this table.' — Tom Hanks

Prior to Saving Private Ryan I never worked with men. I was always working with some babe, and it was always about falling in love, and it just got turned around. I'm not looking for any particular kind of story. I wait until it comes across my desk. — Tom Hanks

I have a woman who teaches me what love is every day. Maybe that sentiment is possible to fake, but for me it's really true. — Tom Hanks

Oprah Winfrey today you are surrounded by nothing but love. — Tom Hanks

I love my family and I love my kids, but when the moments come, it's not as though you can just substitute your own life with what you're doing on film. You have to go to some other place where it's bigger than your own life. — Tom Hanks

I don't follow football, I just love the name Aston Villa. Here in England you have other footballing entities like Manchester and Arsenal and Chelsea — Tom Hanks

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. — Tom Hanks

Tom Hanks Quotes About People

The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided too. — Tom Hanks

There is something basic about protecting land by taking it off the market. People should be able to enjoy where they live while at the same time protect the plants and animals around them. — 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

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. — Tom Hanks

A lot of people would flee from what they think is award-show cheesiness, and I don't. I often joke that my speeches are very personal moments that play themselves out in front of billions of people. — Tom Hanks

Most people want to be able to go off and deal with their day - stop in here, run errands there - and when you can't do that, going out becomes a chore. — Tom Hanks

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

I've worked with people who are much further to the left than I am and much further to the right than I am. At the end of the day, who gives a ... . Good for you. This is America. Vote your conscience. — Tom Hanks

Directing is a constant test of your communicative powers. You're constantly trying to explain people your vision of what you want and steer these tiny little details into a cohesive thing. — Tom Hanks

People ask me all the time, "What kind of father are you?" I won't know until my kids are grown. — Tom Hanks

Tom Hanks Quotes About Live

A story has the opportunity to enlighten us, because as we connect the extraordinary moments on film with the ordinary moments of our lives, we ask ourselves, "What am I going to do the next time I'm scared? What would it be like to say goodbye to my family for the last time?" — Tom Hanks

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. — Tom Hanks

I would not want to live in a country that would have me as a leader in any sort of political bent. — Tom Hanks

There's such an advantage to being involved in the day-to-day details of each other's lives. It's a marvelous fabric to exist in. — Tom Hanks

I was never intimidated by change. I was like an army brat who had lived all around the world. — Tom Hanks

All that most parents hope is that their children are happy, funny, well adjusted, and have a passion for something in their lives. What would negate everything is if the next generation that we're responsible for has a passionless existence. And that's cause for occasional sleepless nights. — Tom Hanks

Help, and you will make a huge impact in the life of the street, the town, the country and our planet. If only one out of four of each one hundred of you choose to help on any given day, in any given cause, incredible things will happen in the world you live in. — Tom Hanks

I would like to think I've reflected the audience's lives somehow, though it's in this big, false, glamorous arena of movies. I hope people see themselves somehow up on the screen. — Tom Hanks

Tom Hanks Quotes About World

If you have to have a job in this world, a high-priced movie star is a pretty good gig. — Tom Hanks

We're part of a greater humanity and we can actually affect the world by the choices we make once we leave the theater. — Tom Hanks

I hope my kids understand that they're not operating in a normal world. And yet there are principles they have to adhere to that are normal - like decency, choosing between right and wrong, and honesty. That's important stuff, whether you're flying first-class or not. — Tom Hanks

We are still in the position of waking up and having a choice. Do I make the world better today somehow, or do I not bother? — Tom Hanks

As a boy Id often spend my days biking on riverbeds and arroyos and come home exhausted. I realize now how much I took for granted having the natural world so close at hand. It wasnt until I moved away, first to New York and then to Los Angeles, that I realized how much I missed the outdoors. — Tom Hanks

Tom Hanks Quotes About Movie

My favorite traditional Christmas movie that I like to watch is All Quiet on the Western Front. It's just not December without that movie in my house. — Tom Hanks

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

There was nothing to react to except wind and trees [in Cast Away]. It was like making a silent movie. — Tom Hanks

Are you crying? There's no crying. There's no crying in baseball. — Tom Hanks

The nature of the movies is different than it was five years ago, and they're all driven by the possibilities of CGI, which means you can make anything happen on screen that you can possibly desire. — Tom Hanks

I'm lucky enough to be able to make only movies I'm interested in seeing. That has to be an instinctive thrust. The audience knows when you're faking it. They can hang any kind of moniker they want on me. — Tom Hanks

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

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

I've made over 20 movies, and 5 of them are good. — Tom Hanks

An animatic is a process where every voice and every sound effect is added to rough animated drawings and it lasts exactly as long as the final movie. So you actually get to go into a screening room with the rest of the cast and you get to see it all at the same time. — Tom Hanks

Tom Hanks Famous Quotes And Sayings

'Larry Crowne' is about as bummed out a human being as one can be when he loses his job. What he is able to enjoy is something that may not be available to everybody. But it's about the value of being willing to get and willing to give good advice. — Tom Hanks

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. — Tom Hanks

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. — Tom Hanks

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

The average movie set is the least political arena on Earth. Nobody bothers talking about politics because, one, we all love the job so much. You don't talk about current events. You talk about old show business stories and whether or not there's gonna be French onion dip at the craft services table that day. — Tom Hanks

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

In the creative process you come to loggerheads and you just have to keep the process moving forward, even if that requires jumping on a plane and flying to London. It's a good thing it's fun, otherwise it would be too much work. — Tom Hanks

I view my wife as my lover, and we have a bond that goes beyond words like wife or girlfriend or mother. — Tom Hanks

I try to do what I call the three E's - educate, entertain, and enlighten. If you don't entertain, no one will show up. But you also have to educate, because people want to discover specific things about a world unlike their own - whether it's how hard it is to go to the moon or how scary it is to be on Omaha Beach. — Tom Hanks

I must say that I do wrestle with the amount of money I make, but at the end of the day what am I gonna say? I took less money so Rupert Murdoch could have more? — Tom Hanks

I don't ask for much. I don't ask to be rich, and I don't ask to be famous, and I don't ask to play center field for the New York Yankees. I just want to get married and have a wife, and a house, and I want to have a kid, and I want to go see him be a tooth in the school play! — Tom Hanks

My TV show had been cancelled; nothing else had gone anywhere; some alliances I had made petered out and nothing came of them and I was looking at a long, long year ahead of me in which there was no work on the horizon, the phone wasn't ringing. I had two kids, one of them a brand-new baby, and I didn't know if I would be able to keep my house. — Tom Hanks

It's difficult to say no sometimes. I often hear, "They'll really take care of you," or "Someone else is going to take the role if you don't play it." Some of the best advice I ever received was to always ask myself: Am I going to kill myself if somebody else takes this role? The answer is almost always no. — Tom Hanks

I'm not interested in doing something edgy with a capital E just so everyone knows, 'Oh, OK, now he's showing us he can do edgy.' — Tom Hanks

When I was growing up, everybody in charge, my parents and teachers, had all survived the war, and they talked about the war like it was the Kraken - you know, this huge beast that roamed the earth during their formative years. — Tom Hanks

Believing is seeing and seeing is believing. — Tom Hanks

My work is really a blast. When it stops being a blast, then it ain't no fun no more! — Tom Hanks

The Pixar people continuously amaze me. They come up with something that actually looks as though it takes place in this happy, real-world. Every plot line is not just plausible, but oddly authentic. The stories are full of adventure, humor and love. The characters are written with great human dimension. I don't know how they do it but they astound me. — Tom Hanks

Let's not pretend there isn't a huge industry driven by the choices made by editors and writers who decide what a story is. — Tom Hanks

I know the Pope is opposed to the use of condoms. All I can say is, I am a spiritual man and I've been happily married for 21 years. I don't even know what a condom is anymore. — Tom Hanks

My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia — Tom Hanks

College isn't necessary for everybody and it's only from what you put into it what you go there for. — Tom Hanks

Once humankind has been some place and found it entrancing, they always go back, I think in the history of the human race, the moon has been the first place we've gone to and said, 'OK, we don't need to go back there again. — Tom Hanks

I come from the school of That Horse is Not Dead. — Tom Hanks

The only way you can truly control how you are seen is by being honest all the time. — Tom Hanks

That's what's nice about directing a film and having it done: There's nothing more I can do about it. It's done. That's it. All I can do is let it go and hope that people are kind to it. — Tom Hanks

Mass-market movies have become about one thing. They kind of declare themselves right off the bat. . . . But when I go to see (a film), I want to be surprised. I want to see something I never expected. And when you get that, it should be celebrated. — Tom Hanks

Being politically correct means always having to say you're sorry. Believe me, the power and pleasure and the emotion of this moment is a constant speed of light. — Tom Hanks

All the kids are gone. It's the greatest thing that has ever happened to Mr. and Mrs. Tom Hanks. I'll tell you that right now. Second greatest after having the kids in the first place. When they go, holy smoke, it's like you're dating again. It's fantastic. Also, we were doing an awful lot of work. — Tom Hanks

If things were easy to find, they wouldn’t be worth finding. — Tom Hanks

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

I know how the Academy Awards works: It's a card game, and I'm in the toss-up category. — Tom Hanks

The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are. — Tom Hanks

The easiest thing to do is to rag on the media, because it isn't doing a very good job right now. It is so much easier to profit from celebrating the worst aspects of ourselves. Acting strikes me as the antithesis of that. We can examine the worst aspects of ourselves, but we don't have to celebrate them. — Tom Hanks

My kid could get a bad X-ray and I could get a call from the doctor saying I have something growing in my bum and that would change my perspective on everything instantaneously, on what is and what is not important. — Tom Hanks

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. — Tom Hanks

If not for John Adams leading a revolution against Great Britain...This would be the BAFTAs. — Tom Hanks

I'm not looking for anything. If you start looking for something specific, then you take providence right out of it. You can't completely control it. Otherwise you'd make the same kind of movie over and over again, which some people say I've done. — Tom Hanks

Everyone says, "You have to work at relationships." Sometimes you've got to work, but if you're working 60 percent of the time and only enjoying it 40 percent... — Tom Hanks

There was a period of time in Los Angeles when I wondered if I was just going to lose everything. — Tom Hanks

I don't think anybody's mind's gonna be changed. — Tom Hanks

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

I will entertain anything; it doesn't matter. You know, it's not obviously about the price, it's not about who, it's kind of about when and what. It's material, that's all. — Tom Hanks

All directors should have to act and all actors should have to direct, so that they can understand all these key things that come into play with whether you can meet your day. — Tom Hanks

If I stopped having passion, I'd be done. — Tom Hanks

It just so happens that my body type and my lifestyle gives me a preclusion for high blood sugars. — Tom Hanks

Shake it off and move on. — Tom Hanks

Life Lessons by Tom Hanks

1. Tom Hanks has demonstrated the importance of hard work and dedication to success, as he has worked hard throughout his career to become one of the most successful and respected actors in the world.
2. He has also shown the importance of staying humble and grounded, no matter how successful you become.
3. Finally, he has shown that it is possible to find success and joy in life by following your passions and never giving up.