"If you're funny, if there's something that makes you laugh, then every day's going to be okay."
Tom Hanks"If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. It's the hard that makes it great."
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"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"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."
Tom Hanks"You cannot look up at the night sky on the Planet Earth and not wonder what it's like to be up there amongst the stars. And I always look up at the moon and see it as the single most romantic place within the cosmos."
Tom Hanks"Tweeting is like sending out cool telegrams to your friends once a week."
Tom Hanks"Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal."
Tom Hanks"I've made over 20 movies, and 5 of them are good."
Tom Hanks"It's just as hard... staying happily married as it is doing movies."
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