Colin Hanks quote: "No matter where you are in your life, whatever set of people you're with, it all still breaks down like high school does. You have your social cliques, you have the people you get along with, the people you don't and the people you're ambivalent about. All of the dynamics are still here."

I collect watches because I'm always late, and I need to know exactly how late I'm going to ...
COLIN HANKS

'Lucky' is for laughs, and there's really nothing funny that I'm doing on 'Dexte...
COLIN HANKS

I didn't want to come up with some generic Johnny Bravo type name. I'm not that cool, so I m...
COLIN HANKS

I played bass guitar in high school and in college and then I actually fractured my thumb, so my bas...
COLIN HANKS

I don't need to know how they make Coca-Cola. I think it tastes just fine not knowing what the i...
COLIN HANKS

Keep in my mind my dad didn't become a huge, huge mega actor until I was halfway through high sc...
COLIN HANKS

A baby's existence for the first three months is a one-way street. One person is doing all the w...
COLIN HANKS

I've been able to find just as much interesting, exciting music through the Internet and iTunes....
COLIN HANKS

Religion theme aside, most of the time I'm in some sort of comedy and I'm a straight man and...
COLIN HANKS

There's this misconception that the Navy is this cruise ship, and you get to go out and sail aro...
TOM HANKS

Everybody has something that chews them up and, for me, that thing was always loneliness. The cinema...
TOM HANKS

Some people are cowards... I think by and large a third of people are villains, a third are cowards,...
TOM HANKS

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

'Larry Crowne' is about as bummed out a human being as one can be when he loses his job. Wha...
TOM HANKS

The same way that I know that I'll never do a movie as good or as celebrated as 'Forrest Gum...
TOM HANKS

I had to say no to 'Fantasy Island' back when I was doing 'Bosom Buddies.'
TOM HANKS

May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.
TOM HANKS

My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know t...
TOM HANKS

My TV show had been cancelled; nothing else had gone anywhere; some alliances I had made petered out...
TOM HANKS

You cannot look up at the night sky on the Planet Earth and not wonder what it's like to be up t...
TOM HANKS

By and large, the making of motion pictures is all about, 'Let's ratchet it up.' And I a...
TOM HANKS

The most accurate representation of how I feel is that I'm incredibly lucky to be working in thi...
TOM HANKS

If you look at romantic comedies as pieces of commerce, the audience is looking for wish fulfillment...
TOM HANKS

A hero is somebody who voluntarily walks into the unknown.
TOM HANKS

When I was 21 years old, I had a job playing Santa Claus in a shopping centre in Sacramento. I was r...
TOM HANKS

I have high blood sugars, and Type 2 diabetes is not going to kill me. But I just have to eat right,...
TOM HANKS

When I work, a lot of times I have to lose weight, and I do that, but in my regular life I was not e...
TOM HANKS

Now, learning how to make a movie is something you can figure out in about an afternoon. The physics...
TOM HANKS

There isn't any great mystery about me. What I do is glamorous and has an awful lot of white-hot...
TOM HANKS

I have gone through so many examinations of what a hero is, between the World War II stuff and the a...
TOM HANKS

If there are nine guys auditioning and they're all gorgeous, I have an advantage, because gorgeo...
TOM HANKS

And I'm not apolitical - I'm very specific in my politics. But a lot of the time it's no...
TOM HANKS

Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there i...
TOM HANKS

Growing up in northern California has had a big influence on my love and respect for the outdoors. W...
TOM HANKS

I think 80 percent of the population are really great, caring people who will help you and tell you ...
TOM HANKS

The nature of the movies is different than it was five years ago, and they're all driven by the ...
TOM HANKS

Actors with political views are a dime a dozen.
TOM HANKS

One thing that was amazing about World War II was that everybody signed up for the duration plus six...
TOM HANKS

Eating everything you want is not that much fun. When you live a life with no boundaries, theres l...
TOM HANKS

I'm glad I didn't have to fight in any war. I'm glad I didn't have to pick up a gun. I'm glad I didn...
TOM HANKS

Life is like a box of chocolates... you never know what you're gonna get.
TOM HANKS

He has confessed to setting out these poisons. I told him it was grossly irresponsible and I also to...
KEN HANKS

What we're doing with Band of Brothers is trying to put it into human terms, so it is not just a...
TOM HANKS

We don't have a host and it's hard to vote yourself off the island when you're the only one on it.
TOM HANKS

If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. It's the hard that makes it great.
TOM HANKS

At the end of the day it's got to be a good movie, it's got to be a funny movie, and it'...
TOM HANKS

When I was growing up, everybody in charge, my parents and teachers, had all survived the war, and t...
TOM HANKS

I do not want to admit to the world that I can be a bad person. It is just that I don't want any...
TOM HANKS

I am who I am, and I think I have a good nature, by and large. But if someone takes advantage of tha...
TOM HANKS

I don't cause riots, but I do cause confusion. People freeze when they spot me.
TOM HANKS

But I also think all of the great stories in literature deal with loneliness. Sometimes it's by ...
TOM HANKS

But look, I was born in 1956, the peak year for births in US history. I think I'm very represent...
TOM HANKS

It's always a combination of physics and poetry that I find inspiring. It's hard to wrap you...
TOM HANKS

My kid could get a bad X-ray and I could get a call from the doctor saying I have something growing ...
TOM HANKS

The kids performed beyond my wildest expectations.
CHRIS HANKS

...childish, selfish, immature - that's right, I am. But do you know how much money I make for think...
TOM HANKS

Acting still rings my bell as much as it did in high school. Plus, I can now indulge my interests as...
TOM HANKS

Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon
TOM HANKS

Who knows what I would have ended up doing with my time if it wasn't for Mr. Farnsworth.
TOM HANKS

The Polar Express.
TOM HANKS

That's what's nice about directing a film and having it done: There's nothing more I can do about it...
TOM HANKS

I will entertain anything; it doesn't matter. You know, it's not obviously about the price, it's not...
TOM HANKS

If you can feel like a good man in your 40s, you can feel like a better man in your 50s, a Superman ...
TOM HANKS

as realistic as possible.
TOM HANKS

I have just two questions: What will be the mission? And can I go?
TOM HANKS

Well, ... the question would be why?
TOM HANKS

Once humankind has been some place and found it entrancing, they always go back, ... I think in the ...
TOM HANKS

There is something basic about protecting land by taking it off the market. People should be able to...
TOM HANKS

Prior to Saving Private Ryan I never worked with men. I was always working with some babe, and it wa...
TOM HANKS

I don't know. People always think that there has got to be a dark side to everyone, a closet with sk...
TOM HANKS

My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels / we know th...
TOM HANKS

The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essent...
TOM HANKS

My name's Forrest Gump. People call me Forrest Gump.
TOM HANKS

I must say that I do wrestle with the amount of money I make, but at the end of the day what am I go...
TOM HANKS

President Kennedy: Congratulations. How do you feel?
Forrest Gump: I gotta pee.
TOM HANKS

My favorite traditional Christmas movie that I like to watch is All Quiet on the Western Front. It's...
TOM HANKS

If you have to have a job in this world, a high-priced movie star is a pretty good gig.
TOM HANKS

[referring to Apple Computer]
He got me invested in some kinda fruit company.
TOM HANKS

It's always a combination of physics and poetry that I find inspiring. It's hard to wrap your head a...
TOM HANKS

You guys should do a story on the tuxedo wars that go on if you're nominated,
TOM HANKS

E-mail is far more convenient than the telephone, as far as I'm concerned. I would throw my phone aw...
TOM HANKS

[It's not like the brass ring has been completely out of reach. Besides the buzz that surrounded] Ra...
TOM HANKS

As long as you as an individual... can convince yourself that in order to move forward as best you c...
TOM HANKS

The shading and the light and its starting to look crisp and clean it looks surreal and real, it had...
TOM HANKS

There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a mo...
TOM HANKS

There was nothing to react to except wind and trees [in Cast Away]. It was like making a silent movi...
TOM HANKS

As a boy I'd often spend my days biking on riverbeds and arroyos and come home exhausted. I realize ...
TOM HANKS

From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle; we just decided...
TOM HANKS

There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk f...
TOM HANKS

I think I'm lucky that I had kids as spread out as much as I did, 'cause my son, my oldest, ...
TOM HANKS

Repertory theater is all about being part of the whole, one of the many colors in this vast palette.
TOM HANKS

If I was to direct Ron Howard, I guarantee you, I would put him through a living hell every day. I w...
TOM HANKS

You learn more from getting your butt kicked than getting it kissed.
TOM HANKS

Even if a story has nothing to do with my life, if I can recognise something of myself in the charac...
TOM HANKS

There's a small percentage of people who can act. There's a small percentage who get to do t...
TOM HANKS

There's millions of survivors out there; make it one million and one.
TOM HANKS

It's very important for the real estate community, as well, to have good schools. Overall, you might...
DENIS HANKS

Over the last year, the foundation has had many discussions about what to do with that Cedarville la...
DENIS HANKS

It's hard to say if companies would leave, but attracting companies in would be an issue, if they se...
DENIS HANKS

It's a very important issue to the community and the business community.
DENIS HANKS

Plymouth has 62,000 acres of land, of which 26,000 acres are tax exempt. Creating a more diverse tax...
DENIS HANKS

Some people go to bed at night thinking, 'That was a good day.' I am one of those who worrie...
TOM HANKS

Tweeting is like sending out cool telegrams to your friends once a week.
TOM HANKS

I've talked to a number of actors who have gained weight for roles, and just the sheer physical ...
TOM HANKS

The desert, when the sun comes up...I couldn't tell where heaven stopped and the Earth began.
TOM HANKS

Always stand up for what yo believe in... even if it means standing alone.
KIM HANKS

I remember the first time he saw 'Saving Private Ryan,' ... That was special to him because of his n...
TOM HANKS

Every human being is trying to say something to others. Trying to cry out I am alive, notice me! Spe...
MARION D. HANKS

You have to train hard and be strong while staying flexible and limber, so I'm trying to find th...
COLIN KAEPERNICK

I've had times where one of my roommates was moving out of the house in college, and because we ...
COLIN KAEPERNICK

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
COLIN POWELL

My own experience is use the tools that are out there. Use the digital world. But never lose sight o...
COLIN POWELL

Nobody cares if you're black, white, straight, gay, Christian, Jewish, whatever it may be. When ...
COLIN KAEPERNICK

I'm going to continue to stand with the people that are being oppressed.
COLIN KAEPERNICK

We have a lot of people that are oppressed. We have a lot of people that aren't treated equally,...
COLIN KAEPERNICK

At MIT, in Professor Rodney Brooks' lab, I was involved in a project, led by Anita Flynn, to bui...
COLIN ANGLE

I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, w...
COLIN POWELL

I thought boxes were the best toy. When my parents got a new car, I ran to my mother and said, '...
COLIN ANGLE

Bridget Jones is part of literary lore now and actually to be a part of it is enormously flattering.
COLIN FIRTH

Dr. Miller says we are pessimistic because life seems like a very bad, very screwed-up film. If you ...
COLIN WILSON

Isaiah Berlin once said that there are two kinds of writers, hedgehogs and foxes. He said the fox kn...
COLIN WILSON

It is clear as you look at the team why Data Point Capital has so quickly become one of the premier ...
COLIN ANGLE

I've said before: 'If you're going to earnestly sing a song around a campfire, you'd...
COLIN TREVORROW

I've said before, if you're going to earnestly sing a song around a campfire, you'd bett...
COLIN TREVORROW

I'm handsome, no ands, buts or ifs.
COLIN MOCHRIE

I'm a horrible business person.
COLIN TREVORROW

A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.
COLIN WILSON

I want everybody to be scared to death of us. I don't say that in a bellicose way. I say that in a w...
COLIN POWELL

To be bothered wherever you go - it's not a rational thing to want at all.
COLIN FIRTH

The day the soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you stopped leading them. They have...
COLIN POWELL

Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vi...
COLIN POWELL

We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this count...
COLIN POWELL

Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it...
COLIN POWELL

Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your...
COLIN POWELL

It ain't as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.
COLIN POWELL

Don't bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.
COLIN POWELL

Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard...
COLIN POWELL

We have a presidential candidate who's deleted emails and done things illegally and is a preside...
COLIN KAEPERNICK

It was just something - I didn't agree with what the flag was representing at this time, and you...
COLIN KAEPERNICK

I have great respect for the men and women that have fought for this country. I have family, I have ...
COLIN KAEPERNICK

To me, I'm going out there focusing on competing, not worrying about cardio or anything like tha...
COLIN KAEPERNICK

The NFL is a performance-based business, so you should have to perform to earn some of your money. A...
COLIN KAEPERNICK

I'm going to speak the truth when I'm asked about it.
COLIN KAEPERNICK

Sometimes, when things are going really well, I feel like I've already seen things - it's th...
COLIN KAEPERNICK

At the end of the day, you have to look at, 'Are they knowledgeable? Are they doing their job?&#...
COLIN KAEPERNICK

If you're going to do something, you're going to do it to be the best.
COLIN KAEPERNICK

I have great respect for people's right to believe what they want to believe. And I don't th...
COLIN KAEPERNICK

I'll never take the easy way out.
COLIN KAEPERNICK

There's a lot of things that need to change. One specifically? Police brutality.
COLIN KAEPERNICK

I think I'm still trying to find my feet as an actor. And I know it ain't brain surgery, but...
COLIN FARRELL

Either move or be moved.
COLIN POWELL

Policies that emanate from ivory towers often have an adverse impact on the people out in the field ...
COLIN POWELL

90% of my time is spent on 10% of the world.
COLIN POWELL

Get mad, then get over it.
COLIN POWELL

It does help to actually realize that however stunning the person who is, you know, fluttering eyela...
COLIN FIRTH

Experts often possess more data than judgment.
COLIN POWELL

It is true that there are exercises that can strengthen the 'muscle' that enable us to push back the...
COLIN WILSON

A publisher is a specialized form of bank or building society, catering for customers who cannot cop...
COLIN HAYCRAFT

To be conservative requires no brains whatsoever. Cabbages, cows and conifers are conservatives, and...
COLIN WELCH

There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.
COLIN HAY

But you have to understand, American democracy is not like the system you have. We're not an ocean l...
COLIN POWELL

Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforti...
COLIN POWELL

The complex develops out of the simple.
COLIN WILSON

Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough
COLIN POWELL

Don't let adverse facts stand in the way of a good decision.
COLIN POWELL

Organization doesn't really accomplish anything. Plans don't accomplish anything, either. Theories o...
COLIN POWELL

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failu...
COLIN POWELL

Most people don't want to change. They're comfortable and set in their ways. But in order to...
COLIN KAEPERNICK

For me that's what's fascinating about the internet, that aggregate thing.
COLIN GREENWOOD

This stand wasn't because I feel like I'm being put down in any kind of way. This is because...
COLIN KAEPERNICK

Giving back involves a certain amount of giving up.
COLIN POWELL

The American audiences are more vocal and enthusiastic. British audiences tend to sit back a little ...
COLIN MOCHRIE

We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that wou...
COLIN POWELL

I think that's something that's hard for this country to address, is what the real issues ar...
COLIN KAEPERNICK

I don't believe that a female character needs to surrender her femininity in order to be an acti...
COLIN TREVORROW

People don't realize what's really going on in this country. There are a lot things that are...
COLIN KAEPERNICK

Fit no stereotypes. Don't chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approac...
COLIN POWELL

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
COLIN POWELL

A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.
COLIN POWELL

People are fascinated by robots because they're machines that can mimic life.
COLIN ANGLE

I realize that men and women of the military go out and sacrifice their lives and put their selves i...
COLIN KAEPERNICK

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you hav...
COLIN POWELL

But we're born as children and we look at the world with open eyes... And we don't judge and...
COLIN FARRELL

I do enjoy reading some science fiction.
COLIN FARRELL

If after you read something, you connect with it, you want to do it.
COLIN FARRELL

What my first son James did was allow me to care for something in this world when I couldn't car...
COLIN FARRELL

The sea always offers up incredible stories of survivors' fortitude. Myths of a lot of countries...
COLIN FARRELL

I was never an A student, but I was really well behaved until I was 13 or so.
COLIN FARRELL

I'm just a true Irish boy at heart.
COLIN FARRELL

I couldn't care less about who sees my bits... My friends asked how I could do scenes like that ...
COLIN FARRELL

You spend so much time in your head in life. And what yoga does is, it asks you to allow your head t...
COLIN FARRELL

I'm not keen on cars and motorbikes. I tried to be a biker, but it wasn't me - I bought a Ha...
COLIN FARRELL

But I dare not think too far into the future on the risk that I'll miss the present.
COLIN FARRELL

I know what the important things are in life. I know that just because I pretend to be someone else ...
COLIN FARRELL

My Dublin wasn't the Dublin of sing-songs, traditional music, sense of history and place and com...
COLIN FARRELL

I'm a big old romantic.
COLIN FARRELL

You're scrutinized all through your life - you're scrutinized by your family, by yourself, b...
COLIN FARRELL

I'm not going to lie, there are more interesting ways to spend your time than answering question...
COLIN FARRELL

It's not that I'm stupid. I just don't think sometimes.
COLIN FARRELL

Pain seems to be easier, or melancholy seems to be easier to portray in a character. I don't kno...
COLIN FARRELL

No matter where you are in your life, whatever set of people you're with, it all still breaks down like high school does. You have your social cliques, you have the people you get along with, the people you don't and the people you're ambivalent about. All of the dynamics are still here.

Colin Hanks

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