Tom Hanks

Reading a script is usually as exciting as reading a boilerplate legal document, so when you read one that makes you feel as if you’re seeing the movie, you know it’s something different.

Tom Hanks

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

Tom Hanks

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

The truth is that everyone pays attention to who’s number one at the box office. And none of it matters, because the only thing that really exists is the connection the audience has with a movie.

Tom Hanks

The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided too.

Tom Hanks

There was a period of time in Los Angeles when I wondered if I was just going to lose everything.

Tom Hanks

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

Tom Hanks

We are all God’s animated cartoons.

Tom Hanks

When I was 21 years old, I had a job playing Santa Claus in a shopping centre in Sacramento. I was rail thin, so it’s not like I was a traditional Santa Claus even then. I had a square stomach; that was the shape of the sofa cushion that I had stuffed into my pants.

Tom Hanks