Tom Hanks movie quotes

“Now, I know how life is in these parts, working a trade sunup to sundown. No time for reading newspapers. Am I correct? Let me do that work for you. And maybe, just for tonight, we can escape our troubles, and hear of the great changes that are happening out there.”
Tom Hanks - Captain Kidd

“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...” (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

“- 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

“- 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