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

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

“- 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

“- 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

“- Walt Disney: Please sit down.
- P.L. Travers: I shall not sit in the seat of a trickster! A fraudster! A sneak!
- Walt Disney: Mrs. Travers, what in the world has upset you so?
- P.L. Travers: Penguins have very much upset me! Animated, dancing penguins! Now, you have seduced me with the music, Mr. Disney, yes, you have. Those Sherman boys...” (continue)(continue reading)
Tom Hanks - Walt Disney
Emma Thompson - P.L. Travers

“You know, the only couple I knew that both Kennedy and LBJ wanted to socialize with was you and your husband.”

Tom Hanks - Ben Bradlee

“Knowing is good, but knowing everything is better.”
Tom Hanks - Bailey

“I love Jesus Christ and his mother Mary as much as anybody. About 38 churches you could move that creche to, everybody lives.”
Tom Hanks - Charlie Wilson

“- Michael Sullivan: He murdered Annie and Peter!
- John Rooney: There are only murderers in this room! Michael! Open your eyes! This is the life we chose, the life we lead. And there is only one guarantee: none of us will see heaven.
- Michael Sullivan: Michael could.
- John Rooney: Then do everything that you can to see that happens.”

Tom Hanks - Michael Sullivan
Paul Newman - John Rooney

“- Annabelle Fox: Maureen's getting a divorce.
- Joe Fox: Oh. I'm sorry to hear that.
- Maureen, the Nanny: [giggling] It's my own fault. Never marry a man who lies.
- Joe Fox: That is so wise, yes. Annabelle, remember that.”
Hallee Hirsh - Annabelle Fox
Tom Hanks - Joe Fox
Katie Finneran - Maureen, the Nanny

“- Captain Richard Phillips: There's gotta be something other than being a fisherman and kidnapping people.
- Muse: Maybe in America, Irish. Maybe in America.”
Tom Hanks - Captain Richard Phillips
Barkhad Abdi - Muse

“- Andrea Phillips: I know this is what we do. This is our life. But it just seems like... the world is moving so fast... right now things are changing so much.
- Captain Richard Phillips: They sure are. I'll tell you something. It's not gonna be easy for our kids. They'll be going into a different world than the one you and I came into.”
Catherine Keener - Andrea Phillips
Tom Hanks - Captain Richard Phillips

“Well when I think of home, I... I think of something specific. I think of my, my hammock in the backyard or my wife pruning the rosebushes in a pair of my old work gloves.”
Tom Hanks - Captain Miller

“- Ben Bradlee: Can I ask you a hypothetical question?
- Kay Graham: Oh, dear. I don't like hypothetical questions.
- Ben Bradlee: Well, I don't think you're gonna like the real one, either.”
Tom Hanks - Ben Bradlee
Meryl Streep - Kay Graham

“There are seven lost secret fascinations and abilities. They are that: animals can talk; your favorite blanket is woven from a fabric so mighty, that once pulled over your head, it becomes an impenetrable force field, nothing is too heavy to lift with the aid of a cape; your hand, held forefinger out and thumb up, actually fires bullets; jumping...” (continue)(continue reading)
Tom Hanks - Older Mike