Tom Hanks movie quotes

“Thank God, it's Friday!”

Tom Hanks - Streebek

“- Max Basner: That was something we all had in common... your grandfather, me, you. We always knew how to talk a girl into bed.
- David Basner: I'm glad you still can.
- Max Basner: I can't. I can't do it anymore.”
Jackie Gleason - Max Basner
Tom Hanks - David Basner

Don't be scared, 'cuz I'm Funny Steven... with a lampshade on his head. Singing and dancing, for your entertainment, his own rendition of "Singin' in the Rain"!
Tom Hanks - Steven Gold

“- Little Boy: Avoid the clap, Jimmy Dugan.
- Jimmy Dugan: Hey, that's good advice!”

Tom Hanks - Jimmy Dugan

“- Mr. McCoy: You know I have always been a great believer in the truth. I have lived my life as honestly as I can. I, I believe in the truth as an essential companion to a man of conscience. A beacon in this vast and dark wasteland, that is our modern world. And yet...
- Sherman McCoy: Yes.
- Mr. McCoy: ...in this case, if the truth won't set...” (continue)(continue reading)
Donald Moffat - Mr. McCoy
Tom Hanks - Sherman McCoy

“These are the simple rules. No barking, now growling, you will not lift your leg to anything in this house. This is not your room. No slobbering, no chewing, you will wear a flea collar. This is not your room. No begging for food, no sniffing of crotches, and you will not drink from my toilet. This is not your room.”

Tom Hanks - Scott Turner

“I've never seen that. I've never seen anybody drive their garbage down to the street and bang the hell out of it with a stick. I... I've never seen that.”
Tom Hanks - Ray Peterson

“It just so happens I come from a very long line of married people.”
Tom Hanks - Allen Bauer

“- Woody: That is Sid.
- Buzz: You mean that happy child?
- Mr. Potato Head: That ain't no happy child!
- Rex: He tortures toys - just for fun!”

Tom Hanks - Woody
Tim Allen - Buzz Lightyear
Don Rickles - Mr. Potato Head
Wallace Shawn - Rex

“- Streebek: I can't quite place it! It tastes like...
- Friday: Milk. Just like the sign said before you obliterated it. Fresh wholesome milk.
- Streebek: You probably love this stuff.
- Friday: Vitamin D, calcium, essential for good strong bones and healthy teeth. But that's all Greek to you, isn't it, Mr. Gingivitis?”

Tom Hanks - Streebek
Dan Aykroyd - Friday

“- Mr. Potato Head: How come you don't have a laser, Woody?
- Woody: It's not a laser! It's a... It's a little light bulb that blinks.
- Hamm: What's with him?
- Mr. Potato Head: Laser envy.”

Don Rickles - Mr. Potato Head
Tom Hanks - Woody
John Deszo Ratzenberger - Hamm

“I couldn't even kill myself the way I wanted to. I had power over nothing.”
Tom Hanks - Chuck Noland

“We're not here to do the decent thing, we're here to follow fucking orders!”
Tom Hanks - Captain Miller

“- Nelson Fox: I just have to meet someone new, that's all. That's the easy part.
- Joe Fox: Oh right, yeah, a snap to find the one single person in the world who fills your heart with joy.
- Nelson Fox: Well, don't be ridiculous. Have I ever been with anyone who fit that description? Have you?”
Dabney Coleman - Nelson Fox
Tom Hanks - Joe Fox

“- Bank Teller: [cashing Josh's first paycheck] Okay, so how would you like that?
- Josh: Three dimes, a hundred dollar bill and 87 ones.
- Bank Teller: Okay.
[takes out stack of $1 bills]”
Lela Ivey - Bank Teller
Tom Hanks - Josh

“- Chung Mee: Speed is important in business. Time is money.
- Lawrence Bourne III: You said opium was money.
- Chung Mee: Money is money.
- Lawrence Bourne III: Well then, what is time again?”
Ernest Harada - Chung Mee
Tom Hanks - Lawrence Bourne III

We were always taking long walks, and we was always looking for a guy named "Charlie".

Tom Hanks - Forrest Gump

“- Jessie the Yodeling Cowgirl: Andy's a real special kid, and to him, you're his buddy, his best friend, and when Andy plays with you it's like... even though you're not moving, you feel like you're alive, because that's how he sees you.
- Woody: How did you know that?
- Jessie the Yodeling Cowgirl: Because Emily was just the same. She was my...” (continue)(continue reading)
Tom Hanks - Jessie the Yodeling Cowgirl
Tom Hanks - Woody

“- Woody: What happened to you?
- Buzz: One minute you're defending the whole galaxy, and, suddenly, you find yourself sucking down darjeeling with Marie Antoinette... and her little sister.”

Tom Hanks - Woody
Tim Allen - Buzz Lightyear

“- Congressman: Now Jim, people in my state keep asking why we're continuing to fund this program now that we've beaten the Russians to the moon.
- Jim Lovell: Imagine if Christopher Columbus had come back from the New World and no one returned in his footsteps.”
Roger Corman - Congressman
Tom Hanks - Jim Lovell

“Dear God, whose name I do not know - thank you for my life. I forgot how big... thank you. Thank you for my life.”
Tom Hanks - Joe

"The Statue of Liberty is kaput" - that's disconcerting.

Tom Hanks - Captain Miller

“Lieutenant Dan got me invested in some kind of fruit company. So then I got a call from him, saying we don't have to worry about money no more. And I said, that's good! One less thing.”

Tom Hanks - Forrest Gump

“- Paul: It's not a sport if you let a machine do all the work.
- Josh: What about car racing?
- Paul: Shut up, Baskin.”
John Heard - Paul
Tom Hanks - Josh

“- Anna Crowley: This is my house, too. I want to help.
- Walter Fielding: Do you have a gun?”
Shelley Lee Long - Anna Crowley
Tom Hanks - Walter Fielding