Tom Hanks movie quotes

“Seeing is believing, but sometimes the most real things in the world are the things we can't see.”
Tom Hanks - Conductor

“- Sam Baldwin: I'd much rather just see somebody I like, and get a feeling about them, and ask them if they want to have a drink.
- Jonah Baldwin: Or a slice of pizza.
- Sam Baldwin: Not dinner. Not necessarily on the first date because halfway through dinner you could be really sorry you asked them to eat dinner. Whereas if it's just a drink,...” (continue)(continue reading)
Tom Hanks - Sam Baldwin
Ross Malinger - Jonah Baldwin

“George Banks and all he stands for will be saved. Maybe not in life, but in imagination. Because that's what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again.”
Tom Hanks - Walt Disney

“You know you've reached rock bottom when you're told you have character flaws by a man who hanged his predecessor in a military coup.”
Tom Hanks - Charlie Wilson

“Stupid is as stupid does.”
Tom Hanks - Forrest Gump

“My name's Donovan. Irish, both sides. Mother and father. I'm Irish and you're German. But what makes us both Americans? Just one thing. One. Only one. The rule book. We call it the Constitution, and we agree to the rules, and that's what makes us Americans.”
Tom Hanks - James B. Donovan

“- Josh: I'm much better at video hockey.
- Paul: That's not a sport.
- Josh: It requires hand and eye coordination.
- Paul: It's not a sport if you don't sweat.”
Tom Hanks - Josh
John Heard - Paul

“Frank, the coffee. It stinks. It tastes like arsenic. These lights give me a headache; if they don't give you a headache, you must be dead, so let's arrange the funeral!”
Tom Hanks - Joe

“- Walt Disney: We can't make the picture without the color red. The film is set in London, for Pete's sake!
- P.L. Travers: And?
- Walt Disney: Well, there's buses and mailboxes and guard's uniforms and things - Heck, the English flag!
- P.L. Travers: I understand your predicament, Mr. Disney. I do. It's just - I don't know what it is, I'm...” (continue)(continue reading)
Tom Hanks - Walt Disney
Emma Thompson - P.L. Travers

“The whole purpose of places like Starbucks is for people with no decision-making ability whatsoever to make six decisions just to buy one cup of coffee. Short, tall, light, dark, caf, decaf, low-fat, non-fat, etc. So people who don't know what the hell they're doing or who on earth they are can, for only $2.95, get not just a cup of coffee but...” (continue)(continue reading)
Tom Hanks - Joe Fox

“- James Donovan: What about my client, the other person in this equation? My guy.
- Allen Dulles: Your guy? You mean the Russian? He's not your guy anymore, Counselor. Your guy is Francis Gary Powers now.
- James Donovan: What do I tell Rudolf Abel?
- Allen Dulles: Tell him not to drop dead.”
Tom Hanks - James B. Donovan
Peter McRobbie - Allen Dulles

“The thirst for knowledge is a very commendable thing.”

Tom Hanks - Professor G.H. Dorr

“- Private Reiben: I got a bad feeling about this one.
- Captain Miller: When was the last time you felt good about anything?”
Edward Burns - Private Reiben
Tom Hanks - Captain Miller

- Buzz: I think the word you're searching for is "Space Ranger".
- Woody: The word I'm searching for - I can't say, because there's preschool toys present.

Tim Allen - Buzz Lightyear
Tom Hanks - Woody

“You know, I wish people like you would quit saying, 'Aw, come on, counselor'. I didn't like it the first time it happened today. A judge said it to me twice.”

Tom Hanks - James B. Donovan

“- Josh: What's this?
- Scotty Brennen: Pay day.
- Josh: [opens up the envelope and looks at his check] A hundred and eighty seven dollars?
- Scotty Brennen: Yeah. They really screw you, don't they?”
Tom Hanks - Josh
Jon Lovitz - Scotty Brennen

“- Art Weingartner: Safety is my middle name.
- Ray Peterson: I thought his middle name was Louis.”
Rick Ducommun - Art Weingartner
Tom Hanks - Ray Peterson

“- Viktor Navorski: He chit, he chit, he chit.
- Enrique Cruz: Okay, try to repeat exactly what she said.
- Viktor Navorski: He chit, she catch him so...
- Enrique Cruz: Oh! He cheats!
- Viktor Navorski: Yes, yes, yes! What we call Krushkach. We say Krushkach. One man, two womans. Crowded, you know?”
Tom Hanks - Viktor Navorski
Diego Luna - Enrique Cruz

“- Buzz: Andy's house. Sid's house. What's the difference?
- Woody: Buzz, you've had a big fall. You must not be thinking clearly!
- Buzz: No, Woody. For the first time, I am thinking clearly. You were right all along. I'm not a Space Ranger. I'm just a toy. A stupid, little, insignificant toy.”
Tim Allen - Buzz Lightyear
Tom Hanks - Woody

“I've fought this battle from her side. Pat Powers, he wanted the mouse and I didn't have a bean back then. He was this big terrifying New York producer and I was just a kid from Missouri with a sketch of Mickey, but it would've killed me to give him up. Honest to God, killed me. That mouse, he's family.”
Tom Hanks - Walt Disney

“There's no greater joy than that seen through the eyes of a child, and there's a little bit of a child in all of us.”
Tom Hanks - Walt Disney

“- Michael Sullivan: You're protecting him already?
- Frank Nitti: We're protecting our interests, Mike.”
Tom Hanks - Michael Sullivan
Stanley Tucci - Frank Nitti

“Every person matters.”

Tom Hanks - James B. Donovan

“Hello, I'm Tom Hanks. The US Government has lost its credibility so it's borrowing some of mine.”
Tom Hanks - Himself

“Whether you did it or not doesn't matter. The state has to prove it, that you're a spy.”

Tom Hanks - James B. Donovan