Quote

Growing up in northern California has had a big influence on my love and respect for the outdoors. When I lived in Oakland, we would think nothing of driving to Half Moon Bay and Santa Cruz one day and then driving to the foothills of the Sierras the next day.

Tom Hanks

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Tom Hanks
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: July 9
Actor
Character Actor
Comedian
Composer
Executive Producer
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Narrator
Screenwriter
Short Story Writer
Concord
California
Thomas Jeffrey Hanks
Thinking
Growing
Northern
Half
Santa
Bigs
California
Sierras
Next
Driving
Foothills
Nothing
Moon
Oakland
Would
Lived
Sierra
Love
Influence
Outdoors
Think
Respect
Cruz

More quotes by Tom Hanks

Image
In the early days you have a tendency to intellectualize, but you're really just trying to sound smart and score with the chicks.
Tom Hanks
Image
I view my wife as my lover, and we have a bond that goes beyond words like wife or girlfriend or mother.
Tom Hanks
Image
Never give up because you never know what the tide will bring in the next day.
Tom Hanks
Image
The only way you can truly control how you are seen is by being honest all the time.
Tom Hanks
Image
There was nothing to react to except wind and trees [in Cast Away]. It was like making a silent movie.
Tom Hanks
Image
My work is really a blast. When it stops being a blast, then it ain't no fun no more!
Tom Hanks
Image
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
Image
Don’t you love New York in the fall? It makes me wanna buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address. On the other hand, this not knowing has its charms.
Tom Hanks
Image
I'm not looking for anything. If you start looking for something specific, then you take providence right out of it. You can't completely control it. Otherwise you'd make the same kind of movie over and over again, which some people say I've done.
Tom Hanks
Image
I just know that every man I kill the farther away from home I feel.
Tom Hanks
Image
I think I'm lucky that I had kids as spread out as much as I did, 'cause my son, my oldest, was born when I was 21. And my youngest is 15 now. He was born when I was 40, you know?
Tom Hanks
Image
The prejudice surrounding AIDS exacts a social death which precedes the actual physical one.
Tom Hanks
Image
I try to do what I call the three E's - educate, entertain, and enlighten. If you don't entertain, no one will show up. But you also have to educate, because people want to discover specific things about a world unlike their own - whether it's how hard it is to go to the moon or how scary it is to be on Omaha Beach.
Tom Hanks
Image
Even the simplest choice can make a jaw-dropping difference in our world.
Tom Hanks
Image
This is what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination.
Tom Hanks
Image
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
Image
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
Image
All directors should have to act and all actors should have to direct, so that they can understand all these key things that come into play with whether you can meet your day.
Tom Hanks
Image
I am who I am, and I think I have a good nature, by and large. But if someone takes advantage of that good nature, well then, you know, I'm not that nice a guy.
Tom Hanks
Image
Some people are cowards... I think by and large a third of people are villains, a third are cowards, and a third are heroes. Now, a villain and a coward can choose to be a hero, but they've got to make that choice.
Tom Hanks