Top 40 Colin Hanks Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I’m the quiet bass player.”

— Colin Hanks

2. “I don’t need to know how they make Coca-Cola. I think it tastes just fine not knowing what the ingredients are. I think there are some things that should be kept secret.”

— Colin Hanks

3. “I think Robitussin is way underrated.”

— Colin Hanks

4. “My dad has always been extremely supportive in every decision I’ve made and much more interested in me picking what I wanted to do.”

— Colin Hanks

5. “I’m always looking for a chance to do something different. I don’t necessarily want to repeat myself, at any time, and I don’t want to just do the same guy, over and over and over again. I want to be able to do different things and to evolve and constantly try to find those roles.”

— Colin Hanks

6. “I love Calgary. It’s a great city. I enjoyed my time there, quite a bit. Shooting and filming in that cold could be very difficult, at times. When you’re shooting nights, and it’s 3 in the morning and minus 35 degrees, that’s hard to work in.”

— Colin Hanks

7. “Sometimes you have to play like it’s a little bit warmer, which is hard when you can’t feel your face. You just try and do the best you can and make sure that you become really good friends with wardrobe, so that they give you all sorts of hand warmers and body warmers.”

— Colin Hanks

8. “Religion theme aside, most of the time I’m in some sort of comedy and I’m a straight man and it’s really just, let’s wind this guy up and see him explode.”

— Colin Hanks

9. “I guess maybe someone at ‘Dexter’ saw the ‘Mad Men’ stuff and thought, ‘He can do this.’”

— Colin Hanks

10. “Normally, what I do for fun is just nothing. I try to just relax. Normally, it involves just relaxing and reading and maybe going out and meeting up with a friend. I live a very simple existence. I would much rather just sit around and listen to a couple of records and read the paper.”

— Colin Hanks

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11. “I collect watches because I’m always late, and I need to know exactly how late I’m going to be – in order to come up with a good excuse.”

— Colin Hanks

12. “I’m always constantly trying to find stuff that’s different. It’s a way to keep me on my toes and keep me interested and keep me excited about work.”

— Colin Hanks

13. “There is a part of me that is desperately wanting to not necessarily be this cute, endearing, heart-on-his-sleeve type of character that just wants to be liked.”

— Colin Hanks

14. “No matter where you are in your life, whatever set of people you’re with, it all still breaks down like high school does. You have your social cliques, you have the people you get along with, the people you don’t and the people you’re ambivalent about. All of the dynamics are still here.”

— Colin Hanks

15. “There is never a specific theme or anything I have interest in. Really, I make decisions based on decisions that are made by other people and whatever is presented to me, and I do it on a first come, first serve basis, and go from there.”

— Colin Hanks

16. “Keep in my mind my dad didn’t become a huge, huge mega actor until I was halfway through high school, so right around the time he’s going through his big renaissance is right when I’m starting to do my high school revolting.”

— Colin Hanks

17. “A baby’s existence for the first three months is a one-way street. One person is doing all the work and the other is crying, sleeping and pooping. So the first moment when you’re actually able to do something and they acknowledge your presence, that’s a big deal. A very big deal.”

— Colin Hanks

18. “I come from a visual background. I used to work in the camera department at Warner Bros. when I was a teenager. I grew up dusting lenses and learning about photography.”

— Colin Hanks

19. “I’m a big comedy nerd, so I’m always looking for the chance to be funny.”

— Colin Hanks

20. “You learn stuff from your kids, every day.”

— Colin Hanks

21. “There are people that have only seen me in dramatic stuff and they go, “Oh, I didn’t know you could do comedy,” and then there are comedy people that go, “Oh, I didn’t know you could do drama.” I want to try to do both.”

— Colin Hanks

22. “When I was younger it was, you know, my dad dressed up in drag on ‘Bosom Buddies.’ And that was what I was having to deal with at the time. And then around the time that I was into college was when he became statue-worthy I guess you could say.”

— Colin Hanks

23. “Everyone in my industry, the movie industry, is looking at the music industry and going, ‘How do we avoid that collapse?’ And I don’t know if you can, to be quite honest!”

— Colin Hanks

24. “I didn’t want to come up with some generic Johnny Bravo type name. I’m not that cool, so I might as well stick with my birth name.”

— Colin Hanks

25. “The only entry level position on a movie is director.”

— Colin Hanks

26. “I like to look at scenarios and see how people interact with each other. That’s why I’m an actor because I try to recreate that. Since our daughter joined us the spectrum has widened.”

— Colin Hanks

27. “I probably need another couple of years of absorbing that and really looking at it to be able to do it because you actually have to know everybody’s job and I don’t know everybody’s job yet. I’m just now comfortable with my own.”

— Colin Hanks

28. “I love working with actors. I grew up with a lot of actors. All my friends are actors. I love that process.”

— Colin Hanks

29. “I spent a lot of time in Tower Records. I’m a huge music nerd, and Tower was instrumental to me when I was growing up.”

— Colin Hanks

30. “I knew that I needed to do something that I desperately loved. There was a period where I did question if it was acting because I knew that I would be making things hard on myself. I knew that there was going to be a little bit of a hullabaloo because of my dad being who he is and all that.”

— Colin Hanks

31. “I did plays in grade school.”

— Colin Hanks

32. “If I could spend more months out of the year employed than unemployed, that would be nice.”

— Colin Hanks

33. “I never had any idea that I would have a career quite honestly. You never really have any idea what is going to happen. You have an idea of what you would like to happen.”

— Colin Hanks

34. “I’ve always been a big fan of comedy and sketch comedy, and I like to laugh, but you can’t just be funny. You do have to work at it, and you have to try to know what your role is and when you can insert humor, or when it’s best not to.”

— Colin Hanks

35. “If I can be a working actor, if I can be an actor and not have a day job, I’ll be fine.”

— Colin Hanks

36. “I pretty much know that directing means that you have to answer about a thousand questions every day and you have to answer them quick.”

— Colin Hanks

37. “You could make a film about being intoxicated only when you’re riding motorcycles, but really when you’re in an enclosed space safely, you can.”

— Colin Hanks

38. “Honestly, the two main things that I always look for is, when I read the script for the first time, do I read it quickly? Because if I read it quick, that’s an important telltale sign.”

— Colin Hanks

39. “I was in two very horrible bands.”

— Colin Hanks

40. “I’m really fascinated with anything that takes place between the 1920s up through the 1960s. In some ways it feels familiar, and in other ways it feels like it’s from another planet.”

— Colin Hanks

41. “But yeah, I played bass guitar in high school and in college and then I actually fractured my thumb, so my bass career went bye-bye.”

— Colin Hanks

42. “Some people receive medication in order to properly deliver films.”

— Colin Hanks

43. “I’ve always really been a fan of scenes in which you’re able to be as natural as you want.”

— Colin Hanks

44. “To be quite honest, I’m not religious.”

— Colin Hanks

45. “I would love to be able to get behind the camera and direct actors. I think that would be a lot of fun.”

— Colin Hanks

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46. “I’m trying to be really coy, and I’m not sure if I’m doing a good job.”

— Colin Hanks

47. “When it comes down to it, I just want to work.”

— Colin Hanks