Famous quotes by Tom Hanks
My mama says that stupid is as stupid does. (Forrest Gump)
Movie - Forrest Gump
Actor - Tom Hanks
I couldn't even kill myself the way I wanted to. I had power over nothing. (Chuck Noland)
Movie - Cast Away
Actor - Tom Hanks
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)
Movie - Cast Away
Actor - Tom Hanks
We live and we die by time, and we must not commit the sin of turning our back on time. (Chuck Noland)
Movie - Cast Away
Actor - Tom Hanks
The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself. (Chuck Noland)
Movie - Cast Away
Actor - Tom Hanks
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)
Movie - Bridge of Spies
Actor - Tom Hanks
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)
Movie - Cast Away
Actor - Tom Hanks
The hopes are perfect - beautiful, identical, smooth - and they are for something really amazing I feel it in my bones. (Sam Baldwin)
Movie - Sleepless in Seattle
Actor - Tom Hanks
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)
Movie - Sleepless in Seattle
Actor - Tom Hanks
I just know that every man I kill the farther away from home I feel. (Captain Miller)
Movie - Saving Private Ryan
Actor - Tom Hanks
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)
Movie - Joe Versus the Volcano
Actor - Tom Hanks
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)
Movie - Youve Got Mail
Actor - Tom Hanks