Tom Hanks movie quotes

“- Jenny Curran: You don't wanna marry me.
- Forrest Gump: Why don't you love me, Jenny?
[Jenny Curran says nothing]
- Forrest Gump: I'm not a smart man... but I know what love is.”
Robin Wright - Jenny Curran
Tom Hanks - Forrest Gump

“- Emily Carson: Well, it's a nice night, and I have to walk Camille. Do you want to take a walk with me?
- Scott Turner: No. No. Well, you see, I'm starting to like you, and if we're going to walk I'm just going to like you even more, and then one day we might even end up in love and everything will go on fine for a while, but-but then one day -...” (continue)(continue reading)
Mare Winningham - Emily Carson
Tom Hanks - Scott Turner

“I don't know if we each have a destiny, or if we're all just floating around accidental-like on a breeze, but I, I think maybe it's both. Maybe both is happening at the same time. I miss you, Jenny. If there’s anything you need, I won’t be far away.”
Tom Hanks - Forrest Gump

“Sometimes I wonder if I've changed so much, my wife is even gonna recognize me whenever it is I get back to her, and how I'll ever be able to tell about days like today.”
Tom Hanks - Captain Miller

“On the day of my judgment, when I stand before God, and He asks me why did I kill one of his true miracles, what am I gonna say?”
Tom Hanks - Paul Edgecomb

“- Marshall: They just pay me to drive the limo, sir. I'm not here to tell you who you are.
- Joe: I didn't ask you to tell me who I am.”
Ossie Davis - Marshall
Tom Hanks - Joe

“- Ray Peterson: Oh I should have gone to the lake, I shoulda listened to Carol.
- Art Wiengartner: Listen to your wife? Who listens to their wife? Listen, you gotta listen to me.”
Tom Hanks - Ray Peterson
Rick Ducommun - Art Weingartner

“- David: My father believes God is just and merciful and the world can be remade in his image.
- Sarah: And you don't?
- David: I think God has a lot to answer for. And I don't think you can change the world; not much anyway.”
Tom Hanks - David
Cristina Marsillach - Sarah

“- David: How did you and Victoria come to speak Spanish?
- Sarah: It is what we speak at home.
- David: Oh, your family came from Spain?
- Sarah: Yes.
- David: Recently?
- Sarah: About 400 years.
- David: They must have some good memories.”
Tom Hanks - David
Cristina Marsillach - Sarah

“- Ira Lowenstein: Great game, Jimmy. I especially liked that move in the seventh inning when you scratched your balls for an hour.
- Jimmy Dugan: Well, anything worth doing is worth doing right.”
David Strathairn - Ira Lowenstein
Tom Hanks - Jimmy Dugan

“You wanna play games? I can play games! I can play games. I can play ventriloquist with my underwear. I can play darts while maintaining an erection. I can gargle dishwater and fart O Canada at the same time! I can play piano without being popular.”
Tom Hanks - Steven Gold

“I don't understand. All my life I've been waiting for someone and when I find her, she's... she's a fish.”

Tom Hanks - Allen Bauer

“Mommy got sick. And it happened just like that. There was nothing anybody could do. It isn't fair. There's no reason. But if we start asking why, we'll go crazy.”
Tom Hanks - Sam Baldwin

“- Debbie Thompson: Rick, you promise you won't fool around at your bachelor party?
- Rick Gassko: I swear on my mother's grave.
- Debbie Thompson: Your mother's still alive.
- Rick Gassko: Well, if I go back on my word, I'll kill her.”
Tawny Kitaen - Debbie Thompson
Tom Hanks - Rick Gassko

“- Bubba Blue: My given name is Benjamin Buford Blue, but people call me Bubba. Just like one of them ol' redneck boys. Can you believe that?
- Forrest Gump: My name's Forrest Gump. People call me Forrest Gump.”
Mykelti Williamson - Bubba Blue
Tom Hanks - Forrest Gump

“- Andrew Beckett: What do you call a thousand lawyers chained together at the bottom of the ocean?
- Joe Miller: [amused,sitting next to him on the hospital bed] I don't know.
- Andrew Beckett: A good start.”

Tom Hanks - Andrew Beckett
Denzel Washington - Joe Miller

“- Patricia: I wonder where we'll end up?
- Joe: Away from the things of man, my love. Away from the things of man.”
Meg Ryan - Patricia
Tom Hanks - Joe

- Billy: [noticing a dingy hotel that says "St. James"] This one looks all right.
- Josh: No, it doesn't.
- Billy: St. James, Josh! It's religious.
Jared Rushton - Billy
Tom Hanks - Josh

“- Angelica: So, what did you do before you signed on with Daddy?
- Joe: I was an advertising librarian for a medical supply company.
- Angelica: Oh, I have no response to that.”
Meg Ryan - Angelica
Tom Hanks - Joe

“- Forrest Gump: [running] I had run for 3 years, 2 months, 14 days, and 16 hours.
[he stops and turns around]
- Young Man Running: Quiet, quiet! He's gonna say something!
- Forrest Gump: I'm pretty tired... I think I'll go home now.”
Tom Hanks - Forrest Gump
Lenny Herb - Young Man Running

“- Lawrence Bourne Jr: I must say it doesn't surprise me. You have been a constant disappointment to your mother and me ever since the day we brought you home from the orphanage.
- Lawrence Bourne III: Stop it, dad. You know I'm not adopted.
- Lawrence Bourne Jr: I know, but please, just allow me this little fantasy.”

George Plimpton - Lawrence Bourne Jr.
Tom Hanks - Lawrence Bourne III

“- Joe: ...And then I'll be staying on a tiny island and I don't know if I'll be living in a hut, or what.
- Luggage Salesman: Very exciting... as a luggage problem!”
Tom Hanks - Joe
Barry McGovern - Luggage Salesman

“- Patricia: That outfit's wearing you, Felix.
- Joe: Why are you calling me Felix. My name is Joe.
- Patricia: I am calling you Felix because I do what I want.”
Meg Ryan - Patricia
Tom Hanks - Joe

“- Kathleen Kelly: I love daisies.
- Joe Fox: You told me.
- Kathleen Kelly: They're so friendly. Don't you think daisies are the friendliest flower?”
Meg Ryan - Kathleen Kelly
Tom Hanks - Joe Fox

“Bubba was my best good friend. And even I know that ain't something you can find just around the corner. Bubba was going to be a shrimping boat captain, but instead, he died right there by that river in Vietnam.”
Tom Hanks - Forrest Gump