Tom Hanks

"There's no substitute for a great love who says, 'No matter what's wrong with you, you're welcome at this table.'"

- Tom Hanks

"I always look up at the Moon and see it as the single most romantic place within the cosmos."

- Tom Hanks

"People say, 'Jeez, it must be hard to stay married in show business. I think it's hard to stay married anywhere. But if you marry the right person, it might work out. We give each other a natural sense of support for whatever the other wants to pursue. Our marriage doesn't require vast work."

- Tom Hanks

"Everybody’s going to have some degree of health problems, and as we get older I think we’ve gotta maintain."

- Tom Hanks

"Some people go to bed at night thinking, 'That was a good day.' I am one of those who worries and asks, 'How did I screw up today?'"

- Tom Hanks

"You cannot look up at the night sky on the Planet Earth and not wonder what it's like to be up there amongst the stars. And I always look up at the moon and see it as the single most romantic place within the cosmos."

- Tom Hanks

"If it wasn’t hard, everyone would do it. It’s the hard that makes it great."

- Tom Hanks

"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

"There isn’t any great mystery about me. What I do is glamorous and has an awful lot of white-hot attention placed on it. But the actual work requires the same discipline and passion as any job you love doing, be it as a very good pipe fitter or a highly creative artist."

- Tom Hanks

"The future is always uncertain, but we who celebrate what you have done, who celebrate all of your achievements, we are certain of one thing on this day: You will not let us down."

- Tom Hanks

"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

"There's this misconception that the Navy is this cruise ship, and you get to go out and sail around, and every now and then, you have to swab the deck. But, no, it is a very impressive group of young people that live at sea, in this place that's very uncomfortable. They exude a pride that is well-deserved."

- Tom Hanks

"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

"Show up on time, know the text, and have an idea."

- Tom Hanks

"I have high blood sugars, and Type 2 diabetes is not going to kill me. But I just have to eat right, and exercise, and lose weight, and watch what I eat, and I will be fine for the rest of my life."

- Tom Hanks

""If it wasn’t hard, everyone would do it. It’s the hard that makes it great.""

- Tom Hanks

"When the sun came up… I couldn’t tell where heaven stopped and the Earth began."

- Tom Hanks