Top 120 Tom Hanks Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “If you’re funny, if there’s something that makes you laugh, then every day’s going to be okay.”

— Tom Hanks

102. “Help publicly. Help privately. Help make sense where sense has gone missing. Help science to solve and faith to soothe. Help, and you will abolish apathy-the void that is so quickly filled by ignorance and evil.”

— Tom Hanks

103. “The nature of motion capture is only going to work for certain films. It’s not going to put any other type of movies out of business.”

— Tom Hanks

104. “I’ve talked to a number of actors who have gained weight for roles, and just the sheer physical toll it puts on one’s knees and shoulders – no one wants to do it again. I’m 57 and I don’t think I’m going to take on any job or go on vacation again and see to it that I can gain 30 pounds.”

— Tom Hanks

105. “I had to say no to ‘Fantasy Island’ back when I was doing ‘Bosom Buddies.’”

— Tom Hanks

106. “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

107. “My job has always been to hold a mirror up to nature.”

— Tom Hanks

108. “In the time I spend lollygagging over my whites and colors, Anna will drywall her attic, prepare her taxes, make her own fresh pasta, and start up a clothing exchange on the Internet.”

— Tom Hanks

109. “I went to college because I didn’t have anywhere else to go and it was a fabulous hang. And while I was there I was exposed to this world that I didn’t know was possible.”

— Tom Hanks

110. “I’ve made over 20 movies, and 5 of them are good.”

— Tom Hanks

111. “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

112. “The “Toy Story” films accomplish what timeless classics aim for – innocent characters who face an endless trail of adventures.”

— Tom Hanks

113. “Making a film is to make sure that everybody looks forward to coming to work.”

— Tom Hanks

114. “I don’t cause riots, but I do cause confusion. People freeze when they spot me.”

— Tom Hanks

115. “If they could offer up a way to go to the moon that wouldn’t kill you, I’d sign up.”

— Tom Hanks

116. “The same way that I know that I’ll never do a movie as good or as celebrated as ‘Forrest Gump,’ I know that I’ll never do a movie as bad as ‘Bonfire of the Vanities.’”

— Tom Hanks

117. “Being Anna’s boyfriend was like training to be a Navy SEAL while working full-time in an Amazon fulfillment center in the Oklahoma Panhandle in tornado season. Something was going on every moment of every day. My 2:30 naps were a thing of the past.”

— Tom Hanks

118. “There isn’t any great mystery about me. What I do is glamorous and has an awful lot of white-hot attention placed on it. But the actual work requires the same discipline and passion as any job you love doing, be it as a very good pipe fitter or a highly creative artist.”

— Tom Hanks

119. “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

120. “Repertory theater is all about being part of the whole, one of the many colors in this vast palette.”

— Tom Hanks

121. “In New York City real estate parlors took your money and lied to you, drug addicts relieved themselves in plain sight, and the Public Library was closed on Mondays.”

— Tom Hanks

122. “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

123. “I want to have a good time myself. I don’t want to dread going to work no matter what the gig is. I think, selfishly, I will make sure that I have a good time; how about that?”

— Tom Hanks

124. “Tweeting is like sending out cool telegrams to your friends once a week.”

— Tom Hanks

125. “The more men I kill, the more far away from home I feel – Saving Private Ryan.”

— Tom Hanks

126. “Kirk, as his defensive stance, pulled out book after book, reading like he was a chain-smoker with a carton of menthols.”

— Tom Hanks

127. “The tubes have to warm up,” he said. “Does this get shortwave from the Soviet Union?” “How’d you know?” “My grandma had a radio like this.” “So did mine! In fact, that’s it.”

— Tom Hanks

128. “I’d have bet on seeing Eva Gabor on Forty-Second Street before you. Are you crying?” “No. Yes. Oh, Bobby!” Sue explained: She had been in the city for two months, sleeping on Rebecca’s couch. Her savings were running out. No agents would give her the time of day.”

— Tom Hanks

129. “But television, when I was doing it, was all about scoring. You had to make these jokes bang, do whatever you could to make the material really pop. And if it didn’t, there was something wrong with the material, or with you.”

— Tom Hanks

130. “I’ll ask him what life has been like for him since he twice crossed the equigravisphere. Does he suffer melancholia on a quiet afternoon, as the world spins on automatic?”

— Tom Hanks