Tom Hanks movie quotes

“- Jenny Curran: Do you ever dream, Forrest, about who you're gonna be?
- Forrest Gump: Who I'm gonna be?
- Jenny Curran: Yeah.
- Forrest Gump: Aren't... aren't I going to be me?”
Robin Wright - Jenny Curran
Tom Hanks - Forrest Gump

“- Charlie Wilson: Gosh, Joanne, it's great to hear from you. Could I possibly call you back in just a little bit?
- Joanne Herring: Is Ronald Reagan in your bedroom right now?
- Charlie Wilson: No.
- Joanne Herring: Then I'm considerably more important than whoever is.”
Tom Hanks - Charlie Wilson
Julia Roberts - Joanne Herring

“- Buzz: Why would Andy want me?
- Woody: Why would Andy want you? Look at you! You're a Buzz Lightyear! Any other toy would give up his moving parts just to be you. You've got wings, you glow in the dark, you talk, your helmet does that... that whoosh thing. You're a Cool Toy. As a matter of fact, you're too cool. I mean - what chance does a toy...” (continue)(continue reading)
Tim Allen - Buzz Lightyear
Tom Hanks - Woody

“- Kathleen Kelly: Why did you stop by again? I forget.
- Joe Fox: I wanted to be your friend.
- Kathleen Kelly: Oh.
- Joe Fox: I knew it wasn't... possible. What can I say, sometimes a guy just wants the impossible.”
Meg Ryan - Kathleen Kelly
Tom Hanks - Joe Fox

“Why, I ask myself, why have I put up with you? I can't imagine, but now I know. Fear. Yellow freakin' fear. I've been too chicken shit afraid to live my life so I sold it to you for three hundred freakin' dollars a week!”

Tom Hanks - Joe

“- Walt Disney: Let's make something wonderful.
- P.L. Travers: Well, let's see if that's at all possible.”
Tom Hanks - Walt Disney
Emma Thompson - P.L. Travers

“- Private Ryan: Uh sir? Where am I to be during all this?
- Captain Miller: No more than two feet away from me. And that's not negotiable.”
Matt Damon - Private Ryan
Tom Hanks - Captain Miller

“Nobody hates history. They hate their own histories.”
Tom Hanks - Robert Langdon

“- Walt Disney: I have my own Mr. Banks. Mine had a mustache.
- P.L. Travers: So it's not true that Disney created man in his own image?
- Walt Disney: No, but it is true that you created yourself in someone else, yes?”
Tom Hanks - Walt Disney
Emma Thompson - P.L. Travers

“We all have our sad tales, buy don't you want to finish the story? Let this all go and have a life that isn't dictated by the past?”
Tom Hanks - Walt Disney

“Just because they showed up to collect the money, is no guarantee that they'll show up to do the work... and if they do, I can't pay for it!”
Tom Hanks - Walter Fielding

“The best thing about visiting the President is the food! Now, since it was all free, and I wasn't hungry but thirsty, I must've drunk me fifteen Dr. Peppers.”
Tom Hanks - Forrest Gump

“- Dr. Marcia Fieldstone: Tell me what was so special about your wife?
- Sam Baldwin: Well, how long is your program? Well, it was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were supposed to be together... and I knew it. I knew it the very first time I touched her. It was like coming home... only to no home I'd...” (continue)(continue reading)
Caroline Aaron - Dr. Marcia Fieldstone
Tom Hanks - Sam Baldwin

- Boy #1: Dad, he promised to let me play with it, now he says he didn't and he won't.
- Older Mike: Did you promise? Well, you can't just say, "I promise", then forget about it. "I promise" are the most important words you'll ever say... well almost the most important words you'll ever say.
Adam Hendershott - Boy #1
Tom Hanks - Older Mike

“Ballplayers? I haven't got ballplayers, I've got girls. Girls I want to sleep with after the game. Not to coach during the game.”
Tom Hanks

“He better be worth it. He better go home and cure a disease, or invent a longer-lasting light bulb.”

Tom Hanks - Captain Miller

“- Joe: What's that? A teddy bear?
- Chief of the Waponis: It's my soul.
- Joe: Oh, I hope you don't lose it.
- Chief of the Waponis: Me too.”
Tom Hanks - Joe
Abe Vigoda - Chief of the Waponis

“- Charlie Wilson: She always wanted to be a dancer but it was against her religion.
- Brigadier Rashid: What religion is that?
- Charlie Wilson: She's Baptist.”
Tom Hanks - Charlie Wilson
Faran Tahir - Brigadier Rashid

“The true spirit of Christmas lies in your heart.”
Tom Hanks - Santa Claus

“- Robert Langdon: This is the original icon for male. It's a rudimentary phallus.
- Sophie Neveu: Quite to the point.
- Sir Leigh Teabing: Yes, indeed.
- Robert Langdon: This is know as the blade. It represents aggression and manhood. It's a symbol still used today in modern military uniforms.
- Sir Leigh Teabing: Yes, the more penises you have,...” (continue)(continue reading)
Tom Hanks - Robert Langdon
Audrey Tautou - Sophie Neveu
Sir Ian McKellen - Sir Leigh Teabing

“I don't ask for much. I don't ask to be rich, and I don't ask to be famous, and I don't ask to play center field for the New York Yankees. I just want to get married and have a wife, and a house, and I want to have a kid, and I want to go see him be a tooth in the school play!”

Tom Hanks - Allen Bauer

“- Lieutenant Daniel Taylor: Have you found Jesus yet, Gump?
- Forrest Gump: I didn't know I was supposed to be looking for him, sir.”
Gary Sinise - Lieutenant Dan Taylor
Tom Hanks - Forrest Gump

- Mr. White: This "Oneders", with the O-N-E, it doesn't work. It's confusing. From now on, you boys'll just be... simply "The Wonders".
- Lenny Haise: As in, I wonder what happened to the "O'Needers"?
Tom Hanks - Mr. White
Steve Zahn - Lenny Haise

“- Fred Haise: It hurts when I urinate.
- Jim Lovell: Well, you're not getting enough water.
- Fred Haise: No, I'm drinkin' my rations, same as you... I think old Swigert gave me the clap. Been pissin' in my relief tube.
- Jim Lovell: Well, that'd be a hot one at the debriefing for the flight surgeons... Another first for America's spacemen.”
Bill Paxton - Fred Haise
Tom Hanks - Jim Lovell

“- Friday: With the exception of you and canned cling peaches I'd be hard pressed to find anyone or anything that doesn't know you should never leave your car keys in the ignition.
- Streebek: It's called a mistake, Friday, but I don't suppose you ever make any of those, do you?”
Dan Aykroyd - Friday
Tom Hanks - Streebek