Tom Hanks movie quotes

“You ever try to not to laugh in church when something funny gets stuck in your head?”
Tom Hanks - Paul Edgecomb

“- Dottie Hinson: You ever been married?
- Jimmy Dugan: Well, let me think... yeah, twice.
- Dottie Hinson: Any children?
- Jimmy Dugan: One of them was, yeah.”
Geena Davis - Dottie Hinson
Tom Hanks - Jimmy Dugan

“- Sarah: What did your family think about you joining the RAF?
- David: My mother died long before that. My brother and sister didn't have opinion. My father was disappointed. He's a pacifist. I was bound to disappoint my father. Joining up just got it over with nice and quick.”
Cristina Marsillach - Sarah
Tom Hanks - David

“Who am I? That's the real question, isn't it? Who-who am I? Who are you! What other questions are there? What other questions are there, really! You want to understand the universe? Embrace the universe. The door to the universe is you.”
Tom Hanks - Joe

- Buzz Lightyear: Woody you're in danger here, we need to leave now.
- Rex the Green Dinosaur: Al's selling you to a toy museum, in Japan.
- Woody: I know! It's okay, Buzz. I actually wanna go.
- Mr. Potato Head: What? Are you crazy?
- Woody: Look, the thing is, I'm this rare "Sheriff Woody" doll, and these guys, are my round-up gang.
Tim Allen - Buzz Lightyear
Wallace Shawn - Rex the Green Dinosaur
Tom Hanks - Woody
Don Rickles - Mr. Potato Head

“Believe me, the power and pleasure and the emotion of this moment is a constant speed of light. (on receiving the Best Actor for Forrest Gump).”
Tom Hanks

“- Marilyn Lovell: Naturally, it's 13. Why 13?
- Jim Lovell: It comes after 12, hon.”
Kathleen Quinlan - Marilyn Lovell
Tom Hanks - Jim Lovell

“- Friday: Ma'am, what is the approximate dry weight of the average Madagascan fruit tree bat?
- Streebeck: You mean you don't know?”
Dan Aykroyd - Friday
Tom Hanks - Streebek

“- Dr. Ellison: What did you do in the fire department?
- Joe: Well... I put out fires.”
Robert Stack - Dr. Ellison
Tom Hanks - Joe

“It's not that I can't help these people. It's just I don't want to.”
Tom Hanks - Lawrence Bourne III

“- Carol Peterson: Where are you going?
- Ray Peterson: I can't walk anywhere without you asking me where I'm going... I'm going to Paris, France, okay? I'm going to Banff, Canada, alright? That's where I'm going.
- Carol Peterson: Are you taking the dog?
- Ray Peterson: Yeah, yeah, I'm taking the dog for a walk.”
Carrie Fisher - Carol Peterson
Tom Hanks - Ray Peterson

“- Charlie Wilson: You're no James Bond.
- Gust Avrakotos: You're no Thomas Jefferson, either. Let's call it even.”
Tom Hanks - Charlie Wilson
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Gust Avrakotos

“- Andrew Beckett: What I love the most about the law?
- Joe Miller: Yeah.
- Andrew Beckett: It's that every now and then, not often, but occasionally, you get to be a part of justice being done. That really is quite a thrill when that happens.”
Tom Hanks - Andrew Beckett
Denzel Washington - Joe Miller

“- Amelia Warren: I just keep ingesting these poisonous men until I make myself sick.
- Viktor Navorski: You're not sick, Amelia, no. You're a little far-sighted.”
Catherine Zeta-Jones - Amelia Warren
Tom Hanks - Viktor Navorski

“- Carl Hanratty: Well, would you like to hear me tell a joke?
- Earl Amdursky: Yeah. Yeah, we'd love to hear a joke from you.
- Carl Hanratty: Knock knock.
- Earl Amdursky: Who's there?
- Carl Hanratty: Go fuck yourselves.”
Tom Hanks - Carl Hanratty
Brian Howe - Earl Amdursky

- Forrest Gump: "Hello. I'm Forrest, Forrest Gump".
- Recruit Officer: "Nobody gives a horse's shit who you are, fuzzball! You're not even a low-life, scum-sucking maggot! Get your faggoty ass on the bus, you're in the Army now!".
Tom Hanks

“You see, when... when you end up killing one of your men, you see, you tell yourself it happened so you could save the lives of two or three or ten others. Maybe a hundred others.”
Tom Hanks - Captain Miller

“- Buzz Lightyear: Woody, you're not a collector's item, you're a child's plaything. You are a toy!
- Woody: For how much longer? One more rip, and Andy's done with me. And what do I do then, Buzz? Huh? You tell me.
- Buzz Lightyear: Somewhere in that pad of stuffing is a toy who taught me that life's only worth living if you're being loved by a...” (continue)(continue reading)
Tim Allen - Buzz Lightyear
Tom Hanks - Woody

“I just know that every man I kill the farther away from home I feel.”
Tom Hanks - Captain Miller

“The legend will be revealed when the heir reveals himself.”
Tom Hanks - Robert Langdon

“- Joe: I still have a problem. I have a brain cloud.
- Patricia: A brain cloud... what is a brain cloud?
- Joe: It's - well, maybe I should get a second opinion.
- Patricia: You didn't get a second opinion on something called a brain cloud? I mean what are you, a hypochondriac?”
Tom Hanks - Joe
Meg Ryan - Patricia

“We knew we were dead instantly, the way you always know you're in for it when bigger kids show up. It's a sixth sense you never lose.”

Tom Hanks - Older Mike

“At one time most of my friends could hear the bell, but as years passed it fell silent for all of them. Though I've grown old the bell still rings for me, as it does for all who truly believe.”
Tom Hanks - Hero Boy

“- Debbie Thompson: Are there gonna be girls at the party?
- Rick Gassko: No... it's a 'stag' party, and that means that the 'does' stay home!
- Debbie Thompson: I'm not talking about the 'does'. I'm talking about hookers.”
Tawny Kitaen - Debbie Thompson
Tom Hanks - Rick Gassko

“Brinkley is my dog. He loves the streets of New York as much as I do, although he likes to eat bits of pizza and bagels off the sidewalk and I prefer to buy them.”
Tom Hanks - Joe Fox