Tom Hanks movie quotes

“- Joe Miller: What's wrong with your face?
- Andrew Beckett: [upon entering Joe's office] I have AIDS.”
Denzel Washington - Joe Miller
Tom Hanks - Andrew Beckett

“The only thing that matters is what you believe. History shows us Jesus was an extraordinary man. A human inspiration. That's it. That's all the evidence has ever proved. But... When I was a boy... When I was down in that well Teabing told you about... I thought I was going to die, Sophie. And what I did... , I prayed. I prayed... to Jesus... to...” (continue)(continue reading)
Tom Hanks - Robert Langdon

“- Drill Sergeant: Gump! What's your sole purpose in this army?
- Forrest Gump: To do whatever you tell me, drill sergeant!
- Drill Sergeant: God damn it, Gump! You're a god damn genius! This is the most outstanding answer I have ever heard. You must have a goddamn I.Q. of 160. You are goddamn gifted, Private Gump.”
Afemo Omilami - Drill Sergeant
Tom Hanks - Forrest Gump

“- Sherman McCoy: I understand you went to Yale.
- Tom Killian: Yeah. You, too. Huh?
- Sherman McCoy: What did you think of it?
- Tom Killian: It was okay. As law schools go. They give you the scholarly view. You know. It's terrific for anything you want to do - as long as it doesn't involve real people.”
Tom Hanks - Sherman McCoy
Kevin Dunn - Tom Killian

“From now on, we live in a world where man has walked on the moon. And it's not a miracle, we just decided to go.”
Tom Hanks - Jim Lovell

“- Nelson Fox: Perfect. Keep those West-Side liberal nuts, psudo-intellectuals...
- Joe Fox: Readers, Dad. They're called readers.
- Nelson Fox: Don't do that, son. Don't romanticize them.”
Dabney Coleman - Nelson Fox
Tom Hanks - Joe Fox

“There was every orb conceivable on that tomb except one. The orb which fell from the heavens and inspired Newton's life's work. Work that incurred the wrath of the Church... until his dying day. A-p-p-l-e. Apple.”
Tom Hanks - Robert Langdon

“- Forrest Gump: You could come home with me, to my house in Greenbow, Jenny. You and little Forrest. I'll take care of you if you're sick.
- Jenny Curran: Will you marry me, Forrest?
- Forrest Gump: Okay.”

Tom Hanks - Forrest Gump
Robin Wright - Jenny Curran

“History is all in the mind of the teller. Truth is all in the telling.”
Tom Hanks - Older Mike

“This is the food prison riots are made out of.”

Tom Hanks - Rick Gassko

“- Rick Gassko: Diagnoses?
- Dr. Stan Gassko: Medically speaking?
- Rick Gassko: Yes.
- Dr. Stan Gassko: Whacked out of his brains on drugs.”
Tom Hanks - Rick Gassko
William Tepper - Dr. Stan Gassko

“- Luggage Salesman: Have you thought much about luggage, Mr. Banks?
- Joe: No.
- Luggage Salesman: It's the central preoccupation of my life.”
Barry McGovern - Luggage Salesman
Tom Hanks - Joe

“What is it? What? What? If you're hungry, finish the hamburgers! Eat the buns! Eat the buns! You're not thirsty, you're not touching the water, the orange juice, cranapple - what am I supposed to do? Make you a Margarita?”

Tom Hanks - Scott Turner

“- Mr. Waturi: There's a woman here!
- Joe: Don't you think I know that, Frank? Don't you think I am aware there is a woman here? I can smell her, like, like a flower. I can taste her, like sugar on my tongue. When I'm 20 feet away I can hear the fabric of her dress when she moves in her chair!”
Dan Hedaya - Mr. Waturi
Tom Hanks - Joe

“Adorable. Damn it, why can't you look terrible? I've been out walking the streets trying to convince myself I wasn't in love with you and I come back here and you're barefoot and you're adorable.”

Tom Hanks - David

“You died on a Saturday morning. And I had you placed here under our tree. And I had that house of your father's bulldozed to the ground. Momma always said dyin' was a part of life. I sure wish it wasn't.”
Tom Hanks - Forrest Gump

“- CAPCOM 2: 13, we just got another request from the Flight Surgeon for you to get some sleep. Don't like these readings down here.
- Jim Lovell: Let's see how he likes this. I am sick and tired of the entire western world knowing how my kidneys are functioning!”
Ned Vaughn - CAPCOM 2
Tom Hanks - Jim Lovell

“- Joe: What's the matter?
- Angelica: Did you ever think about killing yourself?
- Joe: What... Why would you do that?
- Angelica: Why shouldn't I?
- Joe: Because some things take care of themselves. They're not your job; maybe they're not even your business.”
Tom Hanks - Joe
Meg Ryan - Angelica

“- Jenny Curran: Have you ever been with a girl, Forrest?
- Forrest Gump: I sit next to them in my Home Economics class all the time.”
Robin Wright - Jenny Curran
Tom Hanks - Forrest Gump

“Mom, why don't you put on your shoes and come out of the cage? How many guys have said that to their mothers?”
Tom Hanks - David Basner

“- Maddy: Are you ok? You seem tense.
- Richard: Oh, no, no, no, I'm not, I'm not tense. Well, I did pass out today... and got hit in the head by a baseball... and brushed my teeth with shampoo... then butchered Rimsky-Korsakov in front of 1,500 people, and my clothes fell apart. But I'm not tense.”
Lori Singer - Maddy
Tom Hanks - Richard

We called him "The king", because... that's what he liked to be called.

Tom Hanks - Older Mike

“- Lawrence Bourne III: I need to have a talk with you; sort of a little father-son chat.
- Lawrence Bourne Jr: Have we ever done this before?
- Lawrence Bourne III: No, we're breaking new wind. Dad, I need $28,000; it's the matter of a little gambling debt. I can assure you it will never happen again.”
Tom Hanks - Lawrence Bourne III
George Plimpton - Lawrence Bourne Jr.

- Donna Mildred Martin: The only advice my Mom ever gave me was, "Don't live in the same city as your parents".
- David Basner: What crappy advice. I can't get my parents to move.
Bess Armstrong - Donna Mildred Martin
Tom Hanks - David Basner

“One day it started raining, and it didn't quit for four months. We been through every kind of rain there is. Little bitty stingin' rain... and big ol' fat rain. Rain that flew in sideways. And sometimes rain even seemed to come straight up from underneath. Shoot, it even rained at night...”
Tom Hanks - Tom Hanks