Tom Hanks, an acclaimed American actor is known for his diverse roles spanning comedy and drama.
Born on July 9, 1956, in Concord, California, Hanks started his acting journey with classical roles in summer stock theatre.
He gained recognition for his comedic talent in the television series Bosom Buddies and movies like Splash, Bachelor Party and The Money Pit.
Hanks expanded his repertoire with dramatic roles, earning Academy Awards for his performances in Philadelphia and Forrest Gump.
He also received Oscar nominations for Saving Private Ryan and Cast Away. Notably, Hanks provided the voice for Woody in the Toy Story series and reprised the role of Robert Langdon in adaptations of Dan Brown’s novels.
His performances in biopics like Sully and A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood further cemented his place in Hollywood.
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Hanks also ventured into writing, directing and producing, highlighting his multi-faceted talent.
I have selected the most inspiring quotes by Tom Hanks in this article.
Top 10 Tom Hanks Quotes
1. “Every job requires a certain riding of a horse.” ~ (Tom Hanks).
2. “Human beings do things for a reason, even if sometimes it’s the wrong reason.” ~ (Tom Hanks).
3. “If you have to have a job in this world, a high-priced movie star is a pretty good gig.” ~ (Tom Hanks).
4. “When you try to bring a story to life, it starts in your head and you see possibilities for it, but it’s just one damn thing after another.” ~ (Tom Hanks).
5. “Believing is seeing and seeing is believing.” ~ (Tom Hanks).
6. “Dear God, thank you for my life. I forgot how big and wonderful it is.” ~ (Tom Hanks).
7. “Shake it off and move on.” ~ (Tom Hanks).
8. “If things were easy to find, they wouldn’t be worth finding.” ~ (Tom Hanks).
9. “I’m not a smart man, but I know what love is.” ~ (Tom Hanks).
10. “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).
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11. “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).
12. “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).
13. “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).
14. “In the 1998 Oscars, I found myself in the bathroom in a stall, next to Tom Selleck. So I leaned over and I said ’looks like we’re a couple of peeing Toms. His angry silence is something I’ll never forget.” ~ (Tom Hanks).
15. “Eating everything you want is not that much fun. When you live a life with no boundaries, there’s less joy. If you can eat anything you want to, what’s the fun in eating anything you want to?” ~ (Tom Hanks).
16. “I do not want to admit to the world that I can be a bad person. It is just that I don’t want anyone to have false expectations. Moviemaking is a harsh, volatile business, and unless you can be ruthless, too, there’s a good chance that you are going to disappear off the scene pretty quickly.” ~ (Tom Hanks).
17. “I know the Pope is opposed to the use of condoms. All I can say is, I am a spiritual man and I’ve been happily married for 21 years. I don’t even know what a condom is anymore.” ~ (Tom Hanks).
18. “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).
19. “My wife keeps on telling me my worst fault is that I keep things to myself and appear relaxed. But I am really in a room in my own head and not hearing a thing anyone is saying.” ~ (Tom Hanks).
20. “I just know that every man I kill the farther away from home I feel.” ~ (Tom Hanks).
21. “Help and you will abolish apathy-the void that is so quickly filled by ignorance and evil.” ~ (Tom Hanks).
22. “But I also think all of the great stories in literature deal with loneliness. Sometimes it’s by way of heartbreak, sometimes it’s by way of injustice, sometimes it’s by way of fate. There’s an infinite number of ways to examine it.” ~ (Tom Hanks).
23. “But actors with political views are a dime a dozen.” ~ (Tom Hanks).
24. “In the creative process you come to loggerheads and you just have to keep the process moving forward, even if that requires jumping on a plane and flying to London. It’s a good thing it’s fun, otherwise it would be too much work.” ~ (Tom Hanks).
25. “I have gone through so many examinations of what a hero is, between the World War II stuff and the astronaut stuff.” ~ (Tom Hanks).
26. “Reading a script is usually as exciting as reading a boilerplate legal document, so when you read one that makes you feel as if you’re seeing the movie, you know it’s something different.” ~ (Tom Hanks).
27. “It just so happens that my body type and my lifestyle gives me a preclusion for high blood sugars.” ~ (Tom Hanks).
28. “I always wanted to play Lestrade of Scotland Yard ’cause he’s a buffoon that gets to wear a uniform. I thought that would be fun.” ~ (Tom Hanks).
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29. “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).
30. “As a young man, even if I was going to see a play or a film by myself, I didn’t feel like I was alone. There was something that was unfolding up there that brought me into it. And I recognized that. For those two hours, it made me feel like I belonged to something really good.” ~ (Tom Hanks).
31. “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).
32. “E-mail is far more convenient than the telephone, as far as I’m concerned. I would throw my phone away if I could get away with it.” ~ (Tom Hanks).
33. “An animatic is a process where every voice and every sound effect is added to rough animated drawings and it lasts exactly as long as the final movie. So you actually get to go into a screening room with the rest of the cast and you get to see it all at the same time.” ~ (Tom Hanks).
34. “My wife and I, we met making a movie. This is not just our job, it’s our life. It’s what we do naturally whether we’re working together or not.” ~ (Tom Hanks).
35. “As a boy Id often spend my days biking on riverbeds and arroyos and come home exhausted. I realize now how much I took for granted having the natural world so close at hand. It wasn’t until I moved away, first to New York and then to Los Angeles, that I realized how much I missed the outdoors.” ~ (Tom Hanks).
36. “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).
37. “One thing that was amazing about World War II was that everybody signed up for the duration plus six months. Fliers got to leave combat after 25 missions, or 35 missions, but other than that, you were in it. You were part of the great effort, until, oh boy, six months after it was over.” ~ (Tom Hanks).
38. “Acting still rings my bell as much as it did in high school. Plus, I can now indulge my interests as a producer as well. My work is more fun than fun but, best of all, it’s still very scary. You are always walking some kind of high wire.” ~ (Tom Hanks).
39. “The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided too.” ~ (Tom Hanks).
40. “If you look at romantic comedies as pieces of commerce, the audience is looking for wish fulfillment.” ~ (Tom Hanks).
41. “If I was to direct Ron Howard, I guarantee you, I would put him through a living hell every day. I would demand so much of him. We wouldn’t quit until he leaves the set crying. Weeping! Spent!” ~ (Tom Hanks).
42. “I would not want to live in a country that would have me as a leader in any sort of political bent.” ~ (Tom Hanks).
43. “There was a period of time in Los Angeles when I wondered if I was just going to lose everything.” ~ (Tom Hanks).
44. “I’m lucky enough to be able to make only movies I’m interested in seeing. That has to be an instinctive thrust. The audience knows when you’re faking it. They can hang any kind of moniker they want on me.” ~ (Tom Hanks).
45. “Directing is a constant test of your communicative powers. You’re constantly trying to explain people your vision of what you want and steer these tiny little details into a cohesive thing.” ~ (Tom Hanks).
46. “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).
47. “I think I’m lucky that I had kids as spread out as much as I did, ’cause my son, my oldest, was born when I was 21. And my youngest is 15 now. He was born when I was 40, you know?” ~ (Tom Hanks).
48. “I don’t ask for much. I don’t ask to be rich, and I don’t ask to be famous, and I don’t ask to play center field for the New York Yankees. I just want to get married and have a wife, and a house, and I want to have a kid, and I want to go see him be a tooth in the school play!” ~ (Tom Hanks).
49. “Help publicly. Help privately. Help make sense where sense has gone missing. Help science to solve and faith to soothe. Help, and you will abolish apathy-the void that is so quickly filled by ignorance and evil.” ~ (Tom Hanks).
50. “The nature of motion capture is only going to work for certain films. It’s not going to put any other type of movies out of business.” ~ (Tom Hanks).
51. “If it wasn’t hard, everyone would do it. It’s the hard that makes it great.” ~ (Tom Hanks).
52. “Houston, we have a problem.” ~ (Tom Hanks).
53. “I know what I have to do now, I’ve got to keep breathing because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring?” ~ (Tom Hanks).
54. “And then it was like, wait, you can go to college and study theater? And act in plays? This is almost a racket, you know. And then when the opportunity came along to do it professionally, I thought I’d won the lottery.” ~ (Tom Hanks).
55. “No journalist has ever been in my house and no photographs have ever been taken of where I live. I don’t parade my family out for display, which is the way it will stay.” ~ (Tom Hanks).
56. “When you’re on the open sea and you drop 10, 12 feet and your stomach goes up around your neck – that’s when you have problems.” ~ (Tom Hanks).
57. “I understand the concept of optimism. But I think with me what you get is a lack of cynicism.” ~ (Tom Hanks).
58. “If you can feel like a good man in your 40s, you can feel like a better man in your 50s, a Superman in your 60s, and maybe a Spider-Man in your 70s.” ~ (Tom Hanks).
59. “Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you goanna get.” ~ (Tom Hanks).
60. “Never give up because you never know what the tide will bring in the next day.” ~ (Tom Hanks).
61. “A hero is somebody who voluntarily walks into the unknown.” ~ (Tom Hanks).
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62. “Saying no to something is actually much more powerful than saying yes.” ~ (Tom Hanks).
63. “The only way you can truly control how you are seen is by being honest all the time.” ~ (Tom Hanks).
64. “It’s not a mid-life crisis. It’s a mid-life disaster. A mid-life crisis is when you wake up with everything and you go “I have everything but I’m still unhappy.”” ~ (Tom Hanks).
65. “For some people, I will be Forrest Gump for the rest of my life. But that’s OK; that’s a good thing.” ~ (Tom Hanks).
66. “Are you crying? There’s no crying. There’s no crying in baseball.” ~ (Tom Hanks).
67. “There’s a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while.” ~ (Tom Hanks).
68. “Help, and you will make a huge impact in the life of the street, the town, the country and our planet. If only one out of four of each one hundred of you choose to help on any given day, in any given cause, incredible things will happen in the world you live in.” ~ (Tom Hanks).
69. “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).
70. “I think it’s better to feel good than to look good.” ~ (Tom Hanks).
71. “Mama always said, dying was a part of life. I sure wish it wasn’t.” ~ (Tom Hanks).
72. “Everybody has something that chews them up and, for me, that thing was always loneliness. The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are.” ~ (Tom Hanks).
73. “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).
74. “From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It’s not a miracle; we just decided to go.” ~ (Tom Hanks).
75. “This is what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination.” ~ (Tom Hanks).
76. “The power of the individual is as powerful as the universe is infinite.” ~ (Tom Hanks).
77. “What we’re doing with Band of Brothers is trying to put it into human terms, so it is not just a flickering, black and white myth on a screen, it is a resonant story. I want the audience to recognize themselves in these men. They’re not just mythic heroes.” ~ (Tom Hanks).
78. “I am who I am, and I think I have a good nature, by and large. But if someone takes advantage of that good nature, well then, you know, I’m not that nice a guy.” ~ (Tom Hanks).
79. “Larger-than-life characters make up about .01 percent of the world’s population.” ~ (Tom Hanks).
80. “My doctor said, ‘If you can weigh what you weighed in high school, you’ll essentially be healthy and not have Type 2 diabetes.’ Well, I’m gonna have Type 2 diabetes, because there is no way I can weigh as much as I did in high school.” ~ (Tom Hanks).
81. “I come from the school of That Horse is Not Dead.” ~ (Tom Hanks).
82. “The truth is that everyone pays attention to who’s number one at the box office. And none of it matters, because the only thing that really exists is the connection the audience has with a movie.” ~ (Tom Hanks).
83. “The prejudice surrounding AIDS exacts a social death which precedes the actual physical one.” ~ (Tom Hanks).
84. “Yeah! I got type-two diabetes! I’m sure there’s going to be some media scandal now, saying I got it because I gained and lost weight for movie parts or something – but I doubt that.” ~ (Tom Hanks).
85. “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).
86. “We are still in the position of waking up and having a choice. Do I make the world better today somehow, or do I not bother?” ~ (Tom Hanks).
87. “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).
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88. “When I was 21 years old, I had a job playing Santa Claus in a shopping Centre in Sacramento. I was rail thin, so it’s not like I was a traditional Santa Claus even then. I had a square stomach; that was the shape of the sofa cushion that I had stuffed into my pants.” ~ (Tom Hanks).
89. “Mama always had a way of explaining things so I could understand them.” ~ (Tom Hanks).
90. “Even the simplest choice can make a jaw-dropping difference in our world.” ~ (Tom Hanks).
91. “I don’t follow football, I just love the name Aston Villa. Here in England you have other footballing entities like Manchester and Arsenal and Chelsea.” ~ (Tom Hanks).
92. “I love my family and I love my kids, but when the moments come, it’s not as though you can just substitute your own life with what you’re doing on film. You have to go to some other place where it’s bigger than your own life.” ~ (Tom Hanks).
93. “We are all God’s animated cartoons.” ~ (Tom Hanks).
94. “As an actor I am always waiting for my luck to run out.” ~ (Tom Hanks).
95. “I think 80 percent of the population are really great, caring people who will help you and tell you the truth. That’s just the way it is. And I think 20 percent of the population are crooks and liars. It’s just a fact.” ~ (Tom Hanks).
96. “But the battles against loneliness that I fought when I was 16 are very different from those I fought when I was 27, and those are very different from the ones I fight at 44.” ~ (Tom Hanks).
97. “You don’t necessarily go in to talk to the person to try to find some secret key to the lock.” ~ (Tom Hanks).
98. “You have to adhere to a philosophy that the life unexamined is not worth living, because otherwise you’re just living from day to day and you don’t have any real sense of yourself or where you are.” ~ (Tom Hanks).
99. “Oprah Winfrey today you are surrounded by nothing but love.” ~ (Tom Hanks).
100. “The nature of the movies is different than it was five years ago, and they’re all driven by the possibilities of CGI, which means you can make anything happen on screen that you can possibly desire.” ~ (Tom Hanks).
101. “I’ve talked to a number of actors who have gained weight for roles, and just the sheer physical toll it puts on one’s knees and shoulders – no one wants to do it again. I’m 57 and I don’t think I’m going to take on any job or go on vacation again and see to it that I can gain 30 pounds.” ~ (Tom Hanks).
102. “In your mid-30s, it’s time to start playing guys of compromise. And as you get older, men of bitter compromise.” ~ (Tom Hanks).
103. “College isn’t necessary for everybody and it’s only from what you put into it what you go there for.” ~ (Tom Hanks).
104. “If you’re funny, if there’s something that makes you laugh, then every day’s going to be okay.” ~ (Tom Hanks).
105. “I had to say no to ‘Fantasy Island’ back when I was doing ‘Bosom Buddies.’” ~ (Tom Hanks).
106. “I’ve made over 20 movies, and 5 of them are good.” ~ (Tom Hanks).
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107. “My job has always been to hold a mirror up to nature.” ~ (Tom Hanks).
108. “The same way that I know that I’ll never do a movie as good or as celebrated as ‘Forrest Gump,’ I know that I’ll never do a movie as bad as ‘Bonfire of the Vanities.’” ~ (Tom Hanks).
109. “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).
110. “In the time I spend lollygagging over my whites and colors, Anna will drywall her attic, prepare her taxes, make her own fresh pasta, and start up a clothing exchange on the Internet.” ~ (Tom Hanks).
111. “Repertory theater is all about being part of the whole, one of the many colors in this vast palette.” ~ (Tom Hanks).
112. “Tweeting is like sending out cool telegrams to your friends once a week.” ~ (Tom Hanks).
113. “Making a film is to make sure that everybody looks forward to coming to work.” ~ (Tom Hanks).
114. “I went to college because I didn’t have anywhere else to go and it was a fabulous hang. And while I was there I was exposed to this world that I didn’t know was possible.” ~ (Tom Hanks).
115. “Being politically correct means always having to say you’re sorry. Believe me, the power and pleasure and the emotion of this moment is a constant speed of light.” ~ (Tom Hanks).
116. “The “Toy Story” films accomplish what timeless classics aim for – innocent characters who face an endless trail of adventures.” ~ (Tom Hanks).
117. “I don’t cause riots, but I do cause confusion. People freeze when they spot me.” ~ (Tom Hanks).
118. “When I was growing up, everybody in charge, my parents and teachers, had all survived the war, and they talked about the war like it was the Kraken – you know, this huge beast that roamed the earth during their formative years.” ~ (Tom Hanks).
119. “All the kids are gone. It’s the greatest thing that has ever happened to Mr. and Mrs. Tom Hanks. I’ll tell you that right now. Second greatest after having the kids in the first place. When they go, holy smoke, it’s like you’re dating again. It’s fantastic. Also, we were doing an awful lot of work.” ~ (Tom Hanks).
120. “I want to have a good time myself. I don’t want to dread going to work no matter what the gig is. I think, selfishly, I will make sure that I have a good time; how about that?” ~ (Tom Hanks).
121. “I’ll ask him what life has been like for him since he twice crossed the equigravisphere. Does he suffer melancholia on a quiet afternoon, as the world spins on automatic?” ~ (Tom Hanks).
122. “Kirk, as his defensive stance, pulled out book after book, reading like he was a chain-smoker with a carton of menthols.” ~ (Tom Hanks).
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123. “The more men I kill, the more far away from home I feel – Saving Private Ryan.” ~ (Tom Hanks).
124. “The tubes have to warm up,” he said. “Does this get shortwave from the Soviet Union?” “How’d you know?” “My grandma had a radio like this.” “So did mine! In fact, that’s it.” ~ (Tom Hanks).
125. “Being Anna’s boyfriend was like training to be a Navy SEAL while working full-time in an Amazon fulfillment center in the Oklahoma Panhandle in tornado season. Something was going on every moment of every day. My 2:30 naps were a thing of the past.” ~ (Tom Hanks).
126. “There is something basic about protecting land by taking it off the market. People should be able to enjoy where they live while at the same time protect the plants and animals around them.” ~ (Tom Hanks).
127. “But television, when I was doing it, was all about scoring. You had to make these jokes bang, do whatever you could to make the material really pop. And if it didn’t, there was something wrong with the material, or with you.” ~ (Tom Hanks).
128. “If they could offer up a way to go to the moon that wouldn’t kill you, I’d sign up.” ~ (Tom Hanks).
129. “In New York City real estate parlors took your money and lied to you, drug addicts relieved themselves in plain sight, and the Public Library was closed on Mondays.” ~ (Tom Hanks).
Short Biography of Tom Hanks
Tom Hanks, born in 1956, is a celebrated American actor and filmmaker, famous for his roles in both comedies and dramas.
He’s a major figure in film, with his movies earning billions worldwide. Hanks has won multiple awards, including two Oscars and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
His notable works include “Forrest Gump,” “Philadelphia,” and collaborations with directors like Spielberg.
Full Name | Thomas Jeffrey Hanks |
Born | 9 July 1956 (age 67 years), Concord, California, United States |
Occupations | Actor, filmmaker |
Alma mater | Chabot College |
Citizenship | United States, Greece |
Height | 1.83 m |
Parents | Amos Mefford Hanks, Janet Marylyn Frager |
Siblings | Jim Hanks, Larry Hanks, Sandra Hanks |
Spouse | Rita Wilson (m. 1988), Samantha Lewes (m. 1978–1987) |
Children | Colin Hanks, Chet Hanks, Truman Hanks, Elizabeth Ann Hanks |
Hanks also voiced Woody in “Toy Story” and directed films. He founded Playtone, producing several acclaimed TV series.
Born in California, Hanks had a mixed religious upbringing and faced challenges in his youth, including his parents’ divorce.
Despite being shy, he found his passion for acting in school plays and later pursued theater studies, dropping out to focus on his acting career.
Quick Facts about Tom Hanks
- Tom Hanks was born on July 9, 1956, in Concord, California.
- His full name is Thomas Jeffrey Hanks.
- He’s a Cancer, astrologically speaking.
- Tom’s nicknames include T.J. and simply Tom Hanks.
- He’s bagged two Best Actor Oscars for “Philadelphia” and “Forrest Gump.”
- Tom and Steven Spielberg make a great team, having worked on hits like “Saving Private Ryan.”
- He’s the voice behind Woody in “Toy Story.”
- As a producer, Tom’s got hits like “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” under his belt.
- “That Thing You Do!” was his first shot at directing.
- He scored five straight Best Actor Oscar noms from ’93 to ’97.
- Tom’s big on saving the planet and supports eco-friendly causes.
- “Forrest Gump” is one of his most iconic roles.
- He’s got a thing for vintage typewriters and even wrote a book about them.
- In 1992, he got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
- Tom shines in films based on real-life events like “Apollo 13.”
- He’s a philanthropist, backing causes like AIDS research.
- His breakout role was in “Splash,” where he falls for a mermaid.
- Tom’s known for playing a wide range of characters.
- He’s been married to Rita Wilson since 1988.
- Baseball’s a big love, especially the Oakland Athletics.
- In 2016, Obama gave him the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
- He’s known as one of Hollywood’s nicest guys.
- Tom’s popped up on “Sesame Street” a few times.
- Flying’s another passion; he’s a licensed pilot.
- He’s worked with top directors like Ron Howard.
- “Cast Away” got him another Oscar nod.
- His voice work includes “The Polar Express” and “The Simpsons Movie.”
- Reading’s a big hobby, and he shares his faves with fans.
- Despite his fame, Tom values keeping his private life, well, private.
Top Questions about Tom Hanks
A: Tom Hanks has starred in over 80 films.
A: Yes, Tom Hanks has won two Oscars, several Golden Globes, and Emmy Awards.
A: Yes, he supports many causes like the National Space Society and Children’s Health Fund.
A: He’s best known as Forrest Gump, a role that won him an Oscar.
A: Yes, he’s directed films like That Thing You Do! and Larry Crowne.
A: No, he keeps a low profile online.
A: His role in Big (1988) shot him to stardom.
A: He was a Bible-toting evangelical in his teens, despite a Catholic and Mormon family background.
A: Big (1988) showcased his potential beyond comedy roles.
A: He debuted in He Knows You’re Alone (1980).
A: He won for Philadelphia (1993) and Forrest Gump (1994).
A: No, but he’s worth an estimated $400 million.
A: He’s appeared in eight Disney films.
A: He starred in Bosom Buddies (1980-1982).
A: Forrest Gump (1994) is his most celebrated film.
A: He became a household name with Splash (1984) and Big (1988), despite some career flops.