Famous quotes by Tom Hanks

My mama says that stupid is as stupid does. (Forrest Gump)

I couldn't even kill myself the way I wanted to. I had power over nothing. (Chuck Noland)

I would rather take my chance out there on the ocean than to stay here and die on this shithole island, spending the rest of my life talking... TO A GODDAMN VOLLEYBALL! (Chuck Noland)

We live and we die by time, and we must not commit the sin of turning our back on time. (Chuck Noland)

The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself. (Chuck Noland)

I am Irish, you are German. But what makes us Americans? Just one thing, a one. The rulebook. We call it the Constitution and agree to the rules, and that's what makes us Americans. It is everything that makes us Americans. (James Donovan)

I would rather take my chance out there on the ocean than to stay here and die on this shithole island, spending the rest of my life talking... (Chuck Noland)

The hopes are perfect - beautiful, identical, smooth - and they are for something really amazing I feel it in my bones. (Sam Baldwin)

We were supposed to be together...  I knew it the very first time I touched her. It was like coming home... Only to no home I'd ever known. I was just taking her hand to help her out of a car and I knew. It was like... magic. (Sam Baldwin)

I just know that every man I kill the farther away from home I feel. (Captain Miller)

If you have a choice between killing yourself and doing something you're scared of doing, why not take the leap and do the thing you're scared of doing? (Joe Banks)

The whole purpose of places like Starbucks is for people with no decision-making ability whatsoever to make six decisions just to buy one cup of coffee. Short, tall, light, dark, caf, decaf, low-fat, non-fat, etc. So people who don't know what the hell they're doing or who on earth they are, can, for only $2.95, get not just a cup of coffee but an absolutely defining sense of self: Tall! Decaf! Cappuccino! (Joe Fox)