Tom Hanks movie quotes

“- Streebek: You know, Friday, we're allowed to go 55... On some occasions, even faster.
- Friday: I'm well aware of the federally mandated speed limit, Streebeck. But, did it ever occur to you that, by going eight miles an hour slower, we might save some gasoline and ease the burden on the poor taxpayers out there who pay our salaries?
-...” (continue)(continue reading)
Tom Hanks - Streebek
Dan Aykroyd - Friday

“- Jimmy Dugan: Sneaking out like this, quitting, you'll regret it for the rest of your life. Baseball is what gets inside you. It's what lights you up, you can't deny that.
- Dottie Hinson: It just got too hard.
- Jimmy Dugan: It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard... is what makes it great.”

Tom Hanks - Jimmy Dugan
Geena Davis - Dottie Hinson

“Why does it have to be human or divine? Maybe human is divine.”
Tom Hanks - Robert Langdon

“I gotta keep breathing. Because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring?”
Tom Hanks - Chuck Noland

My momma always said: "life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get".
Tom Hanks - Forrest Gump

“I saw the moon when we where out there on the ocean. Shining down on everything. I've been miserable for so long. Years of my life wasted. For you. Been a long time comin' here to met you. A long time, on a crooked road.”

Tom Hanks - Joe

“- Wolfgang Vogel: You treat us as stooges for the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
- James Donovan: Can we just call them 'the Russians' and save time?”
Sebastian Koch - Wolfgang Vogel
Tom Hanks - James B. Donovan

“I must say that I do wrestle with the amount of money I make, but at the end of the day what am I gonna say? I took less money so Rupert Murdoch could have more?”
Tom Hanks

“You know, death is something many of us are uncomfortable speaking about.”
Tom Hanks - Fred Rogers

“There is no normal life that is free from pain.”
Tom Hanks - Fred Rogers

“- Lloyd Vogel: What's it like to be famous?
- Fred Rogers: Fame is a four-letter word. What matters is what we do with it.”
Matthew Rhys - Lloyd Vogel
Tom Hanks - Fred Rogers

“I don't think anybody can grow unless he really is accepted exactly as he is.”
Tom Hanks - Fred Rogers

“I hope you know that you made today a very special day by just your being you. There's no one in the whole world like you, and I like you just the way you are.”
Tom Hanks - Fred Rogers

“- Fred Rogers: We are trying to give the world positive ways of dealing with their feelings.
- Lloyd Vogel: Yeah, like what?
- Fred Rogers: There are many things you can do. You can play all the lowest keys on a piano at the same time.”
Tom Hanks - Fred Rogers
Matthew Rhys - Lloyd Vogel

“Anything mentionable is manageable.”
Tom Hanks - Fred Rogers

“- Woody: Okay, like it or not, you are a toy. Maybe you don’t like being one, but you are one nonetheless. Which means you are going to be there for Andy when he…
- Forky: Who’s Andy?
- Woody: I mean, Bonnie. You have to be there for Bonnie. That is your job.
- Forky: Well, what’s your job?
Woody: Well, right now, it’s to make sure you do yours.” (continue)(continue reading)
Tom Hanks - Woody
Tony Hale - Forky

“Being there for a child is the most noble thing a toy can do.”
Tom Hanks - Woody

“- Woody: Ya know, you've handled this lost toy life better than I could.
- Bo Peep: Open your eyes, Woody. There's plenty of kids out there. Sometimes change can be good!
- Woody: You can't teach this old toy new tricks.
- Bo Peep: You'd be surprised.”
Tom Hanks - Woody
Annie Potts - Bo Peep

“I was made to help a child, I don't remember it being this hard.”
Tom Hanks - Woody

“I'll tell you the first problem. The names of your countries are too long.”

Tom Hanks - James B. Donovan

“- Ben Bradlee: We have to be the check on their power. If we don't hold them accountable, then, my God, who will?
- Kay Graham: Well, I've never smoked a cigar. And I have no problem holding Lyndon or Jack or Bob or any of them accountable. We can't hold them accountable if we don't have a newspaper.”
Tom Hanks - Ben Bradlee
Meryl Streep - Kay Graham

“- Joanne Herring: Why is Congress saying one thing and doing nothing?
- Charlie Wilson: Well, tradition mostly.”
Julia Roberts - Joanne Herring
Tom Hanks - Charlie Wilson

- Sam Baldwin: What is "tiramisu"?
- Jay: You'll find out.
- Sam Baldwin: Well, what is it?
- Jay: You'll see!
- Sam Baldwin: Some woman is gonna want me to do it to her and I'm not gonna know what it is!

Tom Hanks - Sam Baldwin
Rob Reiner - Jay

“- Walt Disney: You look at me and you see some kind of Hollywood King Midas. You think I've built and empire and I want your Mary Poppins as just another brick in my kingdom.
- P.L. Travers: And don't you?
- Walt Disney: Now, if that's all it was, would I have suckered up to a stubborn, cranky dame like you for twenty years? No, I'd have saved...” (continue)(continue reading)
Tom Hanks - Walt Disney
Emma Thompson - P.L. Travers

“We live and we die by time, and we must not commit the sin of turning our back on time.”
Tom Hanks - Chuck Noland