Tom Hanks

The pleasure of working with somebody who’s an actor is they don’t waste time with stuff that doesn’t matter.

Tom Hanks

The prejudice surrounding AIDS exacts a social death which precedes the actual physical one.

Tom Hanks

The reason most of us go to the movies is to be involved in someone else’s moral dilemma.

Tom Hanks

There’s a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while.

Tom Hanks

There’s no substitute for a great love who says, ‘No matter what’s wrong with you, you’re welcome at this table.

Tom Hanks

There’s such an advantage to being involved in the day-to-day details of each other’s lives. It’s a marvelous fabric to exist in.

Tom Hanks

This is what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination.

Tom Hanks

We are still in the position of waking up and having a choice. Do I make the world better today somehow, or do I not bother?

Tom Hanks

We’re part of a greater humanity and we can actually affect the world by the choices we make once we leave the theater.

Tom Hanks

When you try to bring a story to life, it starts in your head and you see possibilities for it, but it’s just one damn thing after another.

Tom Hanks