Tom Hanks movie quotes

“- 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

- Corporal Upham: "War educates the senses, calls into action the will, perfects the physical constitution, brings men into such swift and close collision in critical moments that man measures man".
- Captain Miller: I guess that's Emerson's way of finding the bright side.
Jeremy Davies - Corporal Upham
Tom Hanks - Captain Miller

“- Roger Clark: If the government wins and we're convicted, the Washington Post as we know it will cease to exist.
- Ben Bradlee: Well, if we live in a world where the government could tell us what we can and cannot print, then the Washington Post as we know it has already ceased to exist.”
Jesse Plemons - Roger Clark
Tom Hanks - Ben Bradlee

“- Larry Crowne: Are you hungry?
- Mercedes Tainot: Extremely.
- Larry Crowne: Let me show you the world's smallest kitchen. It's where I make my French toast.”
Tom Hanks - Larry Crowne
Julia Roberts - Mercedes Tainot

“- Captain Richard Phillips: You had thirty thousand dollars, and a way to Somalia. It wasn't enough?
- Muse: I got bosses. They got rules.
- Captain Richard Phillips: We all got bosses.”
Tom Hanks - Captain Richard Phillips
Barkhad Abdi - Muse

"The Godfather" is the I Ching. "The Godfather" is the sum of all wisdom. "The Godfather" is the answer to any question. What should I pack for my summer vacation? "Leave the gun, take the cannoli". What day of the week is it? "Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Wednesday."
Tom Hanks - Joe Fox

“- James Donovan: You don't seem alarmed.
- Rudolf Abel: Would it help?”

Tom Hanks - James B. Donovan
Mark Rylance - Rudolf Abel

“- Maddy: Richard, tell me. Are you an agent?
- Richard: No! But I used to have an agent.
- Maddy: No! No. Do you work for the government? Are you a spy?
- Richard: No, of course not. I'm no more a spy than you're spy.
- Maddy: Richard... I am a spy.
- Richard: You're a spy?”

Lori Singer - Maddy
Tom Hanks - Richard

“- Charlie Wilson: You mean to tell me that the U.S. strategy in Afghanistan is to have the Afghans keep walking into machine gun fire 'til the Russians run out of bullets?
- Gust Avrakotos: That's Harold Holt's strategy, it's not U.S. strategy.
- Charlie Wilson: What is U.S. strategy?
- Gust Avrakotos: Well, strictly speaking, we don't have one....” (continue)(continue reading)
Tom Hanks - Charlie Wilson
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Gust Avrakotos

“- Allen Bauer: You know by the time I got there, she was already gone.
- Freddie Bauer: Victoria left, huh?
- Allen Bauer: Yeah. You know why she left Freddie? Because I didn't love her.
- Freddie Bauer: That bitch.”
Tom Hanks - Allen Bauer
John Candy - Freddie Bauer

“- Marshall: What kinda clothes do you got now?
- Joe Banks: Well, I got the kinda clothes I'm wearing.
- Marshall: So you got no clothes.”
Ossie Davis - Marshall
Tom Hanks - Joe

“- Chemical Engineer: Basically, it burns the eyes, lungs and throat, causes vomiting and if continuously inhaled, death.
- Streebek: Oh, sort of like your aftershave.”

Tom Hanks - Streebek

“- Paula: Remember Chicago? Fate? Kismet?
- Richard: No, I don't remember, Paula. You got me drunk.”
Carrie Fisher - Paula
Tom Hanks - Richard

“Women, then, are a huge threat to the Church.”
Tom Hanks - Robert Langdon

“- Jonah Baldwin: Will she scratch up your back?
- Sam Baldwin: [shocked] What?
- Jonah Baldwin: In the movies, women are always scratching up the men's back and screaming and stuff when they're having sex.”
Ross Malinger - Jonah Baldwin
Tom Hanks - Sam Baldwin

“- Talia: Hey - we all got free tattoos. I wanted something in Japanese so check this out. That one says courage, that one says spirit. Courageous spirit.
- Larry Crowne: That's Chinese, and it says soy sauce.”
Gugu Mbatha-Raw - Talia
Tom Hanks - Larry Crowne

“- Buzz: I've set my laser from stun to kill.
- Woody: Oh, great. If anyone attacks we can blink em' to death.”

Tim Allen - Buzz Lightyear
Tom Hanks - Woody

“A man cannot break a promise he's made to his kids, no matter how long it takes for him to make it come true.”
Tom Hanks - Walt Disney

We have been boarded by four armed pirates. You know the drill. We stay hidden no matter what. I don't want any hostages. We stay locked down until help arrives. No one comes out until you hear the non-duress password from me which is "suppertime".
Tom Hanks - Captain Richard Phillips

“Well... if I had a dollar for every time they've killed me in this thing, I wouldn't have to work for you, Deke... Well, we have two days, we'll be ready. Let's do it again.”

Tom Hanks - Jim Lovell

“- Anna Crowley: You are so much less attractive when I'm sober.
- Walter Fielding: Thank goodness it's not that often.”
Shelley Lee Long - Anna Crowley
Tom Hanks - Walter Fielding

“- Walt Disney: I think life disappoints you, Ms. Travers. I think it's done that a lot. And maybe Mary Poppins is the only person in your life who hasn't.
- P.L. Travers: Mary Poppins isn't real.
- Walt Disney: That's not true. She was as real as can be to my daughters, and to thousands of other children - adults too. She's been a nighttime...” (continue)(continue reading)
Tom Hanks - Walt Disney
Emma Thompson - P.L. Travers

“- Allen Bauer: I didn't even like you when I first met you.
- Walter Kornbluth: Nobody likes me when they first meet me.”
Tom Hanks - Allen Bauer
Eugene Levy - Walter Kornbluth

“I'll tell you what I'm doing this weekend, I'm getting laid. It's the 1990's and nobody's getting laid. I'm the only man in America who's getting laid this weekend and I haven't been laid that much. Six girls in college, maybe seven.”
Tom Hanks - Sam Baldwin