Famous quotes by Actors

"My favorite traditional Christmas movie that I like to watch is All Quiet on the Western Front. It's just not December without that movie in my house"

Tom Hanks, Actor

"It's just as hard... staying happily married as it is doing movies"

Tom Hanks, Actor

"I would not want to live in a country that would have me as a leader in any sort of political bent"

Tom Hanks, Actor

"I will entertain anything; it doesn't matter. You know, it's not obviously about the price, it's not about who, it's kind of about when and what. It's material, that's all"

Tom Hanks, Actor

"Prior to Saving Private Ryan, I never worked with men. I was always working with some babe, and it was always about falling in love, and it just got turned around. I'm not looking for any particular kind of story. I wait until it comes across my desk"

Tom Hanks, Actor

"It's always a combination of physics and poetry that I find inspiring. It's hard to wrap your head around things like the Hubble scope"

Tom Hanks, Actor

"I've made over 20 movies, and 5 of them are good"

Tom Hanks, Actor

"I understand the concept of optimism. But I think with me what you get is a lack of cynicism"

Tom Hanks, Actor

"My kid could get a bad X-ray and I could get a call from the doctor saying I have something growing in my bum and that would change my perspective on everything instantaneously, on what is and what is not important"

Tom Hanks, Actor

"I'm not interested in doing something edgy with a capital E just so everyone knows, 'Oh, OK, now he's showing us he can do edgy.'"

Tom Hanks, Actor

"The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful"

Orson Welles, Actor

"That's what's nice about directing a film and having it done: There's nothing more I can do about it. It's done. That's it. All I can do is let it go and hope that people are kind to it"

Tom Hanks, Actor

"At the end of the day, it's got to be a good movie, it's got to be a funny movie, and it's got to make people think, 'Hey, I couldn't have spent my time any better.'"

Tom Hanks, Actor

"I love what I do for a living, it's the greatest job in the world, but you have to survive an awful lot of attention that you don't truly deserve and you have to live up to your professional responsibilities and I'm always trying to balance that with what is really important"

Tom Hanks, Actor

"Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour"

Tom Hanks, Actor

"If you have to have a job in this world, a high-priced movie star is a pretty good gig!"

Tom Hanks, Actor

"I must say that I do wrestle with the amount of money I make, but at the end of the day, what am I gonna say? I took less money so Rupert Murdoch could have more?"

Tom Hanks, Actor

"Growing up in Northern California has had a big influence on my love and respect for the outdoors. When I lived in Oakland, we would think nothing of driving to Half Moon Bay and Santa Cruz one day and then driving to the foothills of the Sierras the next day"

Tom Hanks, Actor

"But look, I was born in 1956, the peak year for births in US history. I think I'm very representative of many of the thought processes my generation have been through and, by and large, people of my age have had their imprint planted on the consciousness of Western society for a long time"

Tom Hanks, Actor

"As long as you as an individual... can convince yourself that in order to move forward as best you can you have to be optimistic, you can be described as 'one of the faithful,' one of those people who can say, 'Well, look, something's going to happen! Let's just keep trying. Let's not give up'"

Tom Hanks, Actor

"And I'm not apolitical - I'm very specific in my politics. But a lot of the time it's nobody's business unless you're over at my house having dinner"

Tom Hanks, Actor

"Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations"

Orson Welles, Actor

"Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest"

Orson Welles, Actor

"When you are down and out, something always turns up - and it is usually the noses of your friends"

Orson Welles, Actor

"They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies!"

Orson Welles, Actor

"The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism"

Orson Welles, Actor

"Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre"

Orson Welles, Actor

"Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason"

Orson Welles, Actor

"I've always found it very sanitary to be broke"

Orson Welles, Actor

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