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This is what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination.
Tom Hanks
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Tom Hanks
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: July 9
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Thomas Jeffrey Hanks
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The easiest thing to do is to rag on the media, because it isn't doing a very good job right now. It is so much easier to profit from celebrating the worst aspects of ourselves. Acting strikes me as the antithesis of that. We can examine the worst aspects of ourselves, but we don't have to celebrate them.
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As an actor I am always waiting for my luck to run out.
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I'm not saying I'm not bummed if a movie doesn't do well, but that isn't the final analysis of whether it's any good.
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People ask me all the time, What kind of father are you? I won't know until my kids are grown.
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But actors with political views are a dime a dozen.
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It was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were supposed to be together ... and I knew it.
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It was incredibly cheesy set with torches [TV's Survivor] - it looked like the lobby of the Enchanted Tiki Room at Disneyland. And here as some guy pulling names out of a coconut, and I said, 'This is the thing that has made American mass media stop in their tracks?
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If you have to have a job in this world, a high-priced movie star is a pretty good gig.
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Even the simplest choice can make a jaw-dropping difference in our world.
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I've worked with people who are much further to the left than I am and much further to the right than I am. At the end of the day, who gives a ... . Good for you. This is America. Vote your conscience.
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In the creative process you come to loggerheads and you just have to keep the process moving forward, even if that requires jumping on a plane and flying to London. It's a good thing it's fun, otherwise it would be too much work.
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If things were easy to find, they wouldn’t be worth finding.
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I will entertain anything it doesn't matter. You know, it's not obviously about the price, it's not about who, it's kind of about when and what. It's material, that's all.
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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.
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Never give up because you never know what the tide will bring in the next day.
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Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.
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