At the end of the day its got to be a good movie, its got to be a funny movie, and its got to make people think, Hey, I couldnt have spent my time any better. – Tom Hanks
Its just as hard… staying happily married as it is doing movies. – Tom Hanks
As a young man, even if I was going to see a play or a film by myself, I didnt feel like I was alone. There was something that was unfolding up there that brought me into it. And I recognised that. For those two hours, it made me feel like I belonged to something really good. – Tom Hanks
You cannot look up at the night sky on the Planet Earth and not wonder what its 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
Just as we reject racism, sexism, ageism, and heterosexism, we reject speciesism. The species of a sentient being is no more reason to deny the protection of this basic right than race, sex, age, or sexual orientation is a reason to deny membership in the human moral community to other humans. – Gary L. Francione