Tom Hanks movie quotes

View Quote (screaming at Buzz) You are a toy-y-y-y!!

View Quote It's not a laser, it's a little lightbulb that blinks!

View Quote Stop it, you zealots!

View Quote I may be just an old railroader and know nothing about lighter-than-air craft but from my layman's perspective, you need more altitude!

View Quote One thing about trains: It doesn't matter where they're going. What matters is deciding to get on.

View Quote Considering we've lost communications with the engineer, we are standing totally exposed on the front of the locomotive, the train appears to be accelerating uncontrollably, and we are rapidly approaching Glacier Gulch which happens to be the steepest downhill grade in the world, I suggest we all hold on tightly.

View Quote Seeing is believing.

View Quote I hop aboard this rattler any time I feels like it. It's like 'm the king of this train. Yeah, the king of the Pol Ex. In fact, I am the king of the North Pole!

View Quote This is an official, authentic, genuine ticket to ride.

View Quote Santa: This bell is a wonderful symbol of the spirit of Christmas as am I. Just remember, the true spirit of Christmas lies in your heart.

View Quote Santa: Found this on the seat of my sleigh. Better fix that hole in your pocket.

View Quote Santa: I see you've made some new friends.
Billy: Yes, sir. I sure have.
Santa: That's a lucky lad. There's no greater gift than friendship.

View Quote Father: An express train wouldn't wake him up now.

View Quote Sarah: He said Santa would have to fly faster than the speed of light to get to everyone's house in one night. And to hold everyone's presents his sled would have to be bigger than an ocean liner.
Father: Your brother said that? He was just kidding you. He knows there's a Santa.
Sarah: He said he wasn't sure. He wasn't sure if Santa was for real.

View Quote [Hero Boy has just done some research on the North Pole, further driving his doubt of Santa's existence, and has just bedded down for the night. His parents enter the room and quietly converse as their son lies half-asleep]
Father: He's gotta be asleep by now.
Mother: He used to stay awake all night, waiting for Santa.
Father: I think those days are just about over.
Mother: [sadly] That would be sad if that were true.
Father: Yeah, an end of the magic.
[Hero Boy's mother bends down to kiss him on the cheek; he quickly closes his eyes]
Mother: [whispering] Merry Christmas, sweetheart. [gives him a kiss as she and her husband turn to leave]
Father: See, he's out like a light. An express train wouldn't wake him up now.
[the parents close the bedroom door behind them]
Hero Boy: [thinking] "End of the magic"?

View Quote Keep the sand out of your weapons... keep those actions clear... I'll see you on the beach.

View Quote Port sidestick, starboard side stick. Move fast and clear those murder holes.

View Quote [Dying words, to Private Ryan] James . . . earn this. Earn it.

View Quote [Apollo 13's center engine cuts out right after liftoff] Looks like we just had our glitch for this mission.

View Quote From now on, we live in a world where man has walked on the moon. And it's not a miracle, we just decided to go.

View Quote Gentlemen, it's been a privilege flying with you.

View Quote Here is the list of things to do while I'm away. Batteries need to be replaced. Toys in the bottom of the chest need to be rotated. Oh, and make sure everyone attends Mr. Spell's seminar on what to do if you or a part of you is swallowed. Okay? Okay, good, okay.

View Quote Run like the wind, Bullseye!

View Quote [To the Prospector] You really are a Stinky Pete, aren't you?!

View Quote [to DeDe] I bribed them to sing a song that would drive us insane and make our hearts swell and burst.

View Quote [to DeDe] I mean, who am I? That's the real question, isn't it? Who am I? Who are you? What other questions are there? What other questions are there, really? If you want to understand the universe, embrace the universe, the door to the universe is you!

View Quote [to Patricia] I tell you one thing, though. Wherever we go, whatever we do, we're gonna take this luggage with us!

View Quote [To Wilson] We might just make it. Did that thought ever cross your brain? Well, regardless, I would rather take my chance out there on the ocean than to stay here and die on this shithole island spending the rest of my life talking TO A GODDAMN VOLLEYBALL!!! [Kicks the volleyball off the cliff in a rage]

View Quote [Explaining to his close friend how he will cope with losing his wife Kelly] I've got to keep breathing. Because tomorrow, the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring?

View Quote [After Wilson begins to float away] Wilson! I'm sorry, Wilson!

View Quote Forget it, guys. He's not worth it.

View Quote [last lines] So long, partner.

View Quote [Buzz is back to normal and no longer speaking Spanish]
Buzz: That wasn't me, was it?
Jessie: Oh, Buzz, you're back! You're back, you're back, you're back!
Buzz: [confused] Yes, I'm back. Where have I been?
Woody: Beyond infinity, space ranger.

View Quote Questions about Prescients n' their whoahsome Ship poured thick n'fast... No one queried what fusion engine was... cos they didn't want to look stoopit in front o' the gatherin'. True really was, Meronym answered the questions, but no answer ever quenched your curio. All o' that answerin' done was teach everyone to not trust her, nay, not a flea...

View Quote ...goats, and so do herders, they're known for housing temper.

View Quote Lonesome night. Babbits bawlin', wind bitin' the bone. Wind like this full of voices. Ancestry howlin' at you, yibberin' stories. All voices tied up into one. One voice different, one voice whisperin' out there, spyin' from the dark. That fangy devil Ol' Georgie hisself. Now you hear up close and I'll yarn you about the first time we met, eye to eye.

View Quote A tiger cannot change his stripes.

View Quote The weak are meat and the strong do eat.

View Quote This beach was once a cannibals' banqueting hall. Where the strong gorged on the weak, but the teeth, sir, they spat out like you or I would expel a cherry stone. Do you know the price a quarter pound of these will earn?

View Quote Proposition: I have fallen in love with Luisa Rey. Is this possible? I just met her, and yet...I feel like something important has happened to me.

View Quote Do you ever think that the universe is against you?

View Quote Belief, like fear or love, is a force to be understood as we understand the theory of relativity, and principles of uncertainty. Phenomena that determine the course of our lives. Yesterday, my life was headed in one direction. Today, it is headed in another. Yesterday, I believe I would never have done what I did today. These forces that often remake time and space, they can shape and alter who we imagine ourselves to be, begin long before we are born, and continue after we perish. Our lives and our choices, like quantum trajectories, are understood moment to moment, at each point of intersection, each encounter, suggest a new potential direction.

View Quote Listen up, we have been boarded by armed pirates. If they find you, remember, you know this ship, they don't. Stick together and we'll be all right. Good luck.

View Quote You're not just a fisherman! You're not just a fisherman!

View Quote [to Muse] You said this was just business! Is this how you do business?

View Quote Toys are for play, but tech is for everything.

View Quote [after unplugging the cord of Lilypad's charging dock from the outlet] Tomorrow morning, everyone will wake up, fully recharged... except Lilypad.

View Quote [as Lilypad obeys Buzz's command to bring back the "horse girl" post on her screen] She has to do what you say!

View Quote These things happened. They were glorious and they changed the world... and then we **** up the end game.

View Quote Well, there were three of them; it was like being slapped around by a Pakistani vaudeville team.

View Quote Comment about Muhammad Zia ul-Haq, who had deposed Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.

View Quote Mommy got sick. And it happened just like that. There was nothing anybody could do. It isn't fair. There's no reason. But if we start asking why, we'll go crazy.

View Quote Move on. Right. That's what I'm going to do. In a few months, I'll be fine, I'll just grow a new heart.

View Quote Look, we had a tough time at first, but we're dealing with it. Jonah and I will get along fine again...as soon as I break his radio.

View Quote I don't think anybody can grow unless he really is accepted exactly as he is.

View Quote I hope you know that you made today a very special day by just your being you. There's no one in the whole world like you, and I like you just the way you are.

View Quote There... There is no normal life that is free from pain.

View Quote We need to get off this merry-go-round sir. The next mistake our countries make could be the last one. We need to have the conversation our governments can't.

View Quote It doesn't matter what others think. You know what you did.

View Quote Everyone will hate me, but at least I'll lose.

View Quote Anagram is right. O Draconian Devil! Oh lame saint! becomes Leonardo da Vinci, The Mona Lisa

View Quote Understanding our past determines actively our ability to understand the present. So, how do we sift truth from belief? How do we write our own histories, personally or culturally, and thereby define ourselves? How do we penetrate years, centuries, of historical distortion to find original truth? Tonight, this will be our quest.

View Quote I'm into something here that I cannot understand.

View Quote They'll be defending the first amendment. We'll tell them that the only way to protect the right to publish - is to publish.

View Quote No matter what happens tomorrow, we are not a little local paper anymore.

View Quote He says we can't, I say we can. There, you're caught up.

View Quote [to Forky] You're Bonnie’s toy. You are going to help create happy memories that will last for the rest of her life.

View Quote [to Bo] Bonnie needs Forky.

View Quote Forky is the most important toy to Bonnie right now, we all have to make sure nothing happens to him.

View Quote [trying to persuade Dottie Hinson not to quit the team] It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard...is what makes it great.

View Quote [to the Peaches' homely chaperone] By the way, I loved you in the Wizard of Oz.

View Quote [to an umpire] Did anyone ever tell you, you look like a penis with that little hat on?

View Quote For the last six months, he's gone to Harvard and Berkeley. I'm betting he can get a passport.

View Quote [When asked why Frank won't flee to New York or Atlanta] Because I'm not in New York. I'm not in Atlanta.

View Quote How'd you do it Frank? How did you cheat on the bar exam in Louisiana?

View Quote Joe Miller: What do you love about the law, Andrew?
Andrew Beckett: I... many things... uh... uh... What I love the most about the law?
Joe Miller: Yeah.
Andrew Beckett: It's that every now and again - not often, but occasionally - you get to be a part of justice being done. That really is quite a thrill when that happens.

View Quote Andrew Beckett: What do you call a thousand lawyers chained together at the bottom of the ocean?
Joe Miller: I don't know.
Andrew Beckett: A good start.

View Quote Librarian: Wouldn't you be more comfortable in a research room?
[Andrew looks up and sees people in the library staring at him]
Andrew Beckett: No. Would it make you more comfortable?

View Quote George Banks and all he stands for will be saved. Maybe not in life, but in imagination. Because that's what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again.

View Quote I've fought this battle from her side. Pat Powers, he wanted the mouse and I didn't have a bean back then. He was this big terrifying New York producer and I was just a kid from Missouri with a sketch of Mickey, but it would've killed me to give him up. Honest to God, killed me. That mouse, he's family.

View Quote Walt Disney: [preparing tea] And a spoonful of sugar?
P.L. Travers: No, I think I'll have whiskey.

View Quote And if I may a toast... to Granny Mundy: may you live as long as you want but never want as long as you live.

View Quote [as Joe arrives] Thank God it's Friday!

View Quote Chemical Engineer: Basically, it burns the eyes, lungs and throat, causes vomiting and if continuously inhaled, death.
Pep: [to Friday] Oh, sort of like your aftershave.

View Quote Nobody knocks off an old man in my neighborhood and gets away with it.

View Quote I-I've never seen that before. I've never seen anybody drive their trash to the curb and beat the hell out of it with a stick... I've never seen that before.

View Quote I'm going to go do something productive. I'm gonna go watch television.

View Quote Faith is a gift which I have yet to receive.

View Quote By all means, let's just talk it over

View Quote Fellas, you called me.

View Quote See all those words printed in a line one after the other? Put 'em all together and you have a story.

View Quote [to Cicada, in Kiowa] You belong with me. You belong with me.

View Quote [reading] "And within moments the entire wedding congregation was digging. Finally, poor Alfred Blackstone was pulled from the earth very much alive." [townspeople clap and cheer] And from his widow Blackstone's embrace, Alfred turned to the groom and said, and I quote, "Feller, when you get in that church and she says 'Till death us do part'... don't you believe a word of it!"

View Quote Geppetto: Pinocchio, I have been thinking. Maybe it is time for you to go to school.
Pinocchio: Really, Father? Really?

View Quote Geppetto: Pinocchio. My boy, you're here?
Pinocchio: Yes, Father, I'm here. We're all here.
Geppetto: [groans] Oh. Cleo? Figaro? Figaro, Cleo, you're all here. Oh, I had the strangest dream. I dreamt that we had all been swallowed by a whale.
Pinocchio: Yes, Father. But it wasn't a whale. It was a sea monster, and we got out.
Geppetto: Oh! Yes! Yes, we did. Now I remember. You saved us. You swam faster than any clipper ship could sail. No real boy could ever do such a thing. Oh, Pinocchio, you honestly did try with all your heart and that makes you a truthful boy. And you know what else it makes you? Unselfish and very, very brave. Pinocchio, when you first came to me, I might have made you think I wanted somebody else. But it was you I was wishing for. You will always be my real boy. There isn't a single thing I would change about you. I am so very proud of you... and I love you so very much.
Pinocchio: I love you too, Father.
Geppetto: Well, well, we have come quite a long way, haven't we, son?
Pinocchio: We sure have, Father. Now let's get you home.
Geppetto: Yes, let's get home. Come on, Cleo, Figaro. But... Pinocchio, do you know the way?
Pinocchio: We'll follow that light.

View Quote Stromboli: [shouting in Italian, then in English] What this nonsense?! Nobody in my show performs for free! Now pack! We leave in an hour! And you… Ooh, ooh, ooh. My little Pinocchio. I was scared to death you got lost or stolen. And we wouldn't want that now, would we? In an hour we go! [The scene cuts to him throwing Pinocchio and shuts him in a bird cage]
Pinocchio: Let me go! Let me out of here! Help!
Stromboli: [locks up the cage with a key] There, this will be your home, where I can find you always.
Pinocchio: Oh, no. No, no!
Stromboli: Yes, yes. To me you are belong.
Pinocchio: Let me go! Let me out of here! Help! Father!
Stromboli: Father? No parent wants a bizzaria like you.
Pinocchio: No, no!
Stromboli: Parents want a real kid.
Pinocchio: Jiminy. Father. Help! Help! Oh, no. Help! [whimpering] Please.
Stromboli: [puts the key on a hook next to the door; speaking in Italian; in English] My little wooden gold mine. [laughs maliciously and closes the door behind him, locking it]
[Pinocchio sits on his knees, sobbing helplessly]
Geppetto: Pinocchio! Pinocchio!

View Quote [Looks at the co-pilot 10 seconds before ditching] Any ideas?

View Quote Everything is unprecedented until it happens for the first time.

View Quote This is the captain. Brace for impact.

View Quote Tom Hanks: This is Tom Hanks saying if you see me in person, please leave me be.

View Quote [During the credits, Tom Hanks is making an announcement.]
Tom Hanks: This is Tom Hanks saying: if you see me in person, please leave me be.

View Quote [The Simpsons are watching TV when a commercial comes on. It features a father, a teenage girl, and a little boy.]
TV Announcer [offscreen]: Are you tired of the same old Grand Canyon?
Father [bored]: Well, here we are, kids. The Grand Canyon.
Girl [annoyed]: It's so old and boring! I want a new one. NOW!!
Tom Hanks: Hello. I'm Tom Hanks. The US Government has lost its credibility, so it's borrowing some of mine.
Boy: Tousle my hair, Mr. Hanks!
Tom Hanks: Sure thing, son. [ruffles the boys hair with a touch of magic and chuckles] Now I am pleased to tell you about the new Grand Canyon. Coming this weekend, it's east of Shelbyville and south of Capital City!
Marge: That's where Springfield is!!
Tom Hanks: It's nowhere near anything is or ever was. This is Tom Hanks saying if you're going to pick a government to trust, why not this one?

View Quote Amelia: Are you coming or going?
Viktor: I don't know. Both.

View Quote Frank: I'm talking about bombs. I'm talking about human dignity. I'm talking about human rights. Viktor, please don't be afraid to tell me that you're afraid of Krakhozia.
Viktor: Is home. I am not afraid from my home. [pause] So?
Frank: [whispering] All right.
Viktor: I go to New York City now?
Frank: No.
Viktor: No? Uh... Okay. I'm uh... I'm uh... I'm afraid from ghosts.
Frank: Okay, thanks very much!
Viktor: I'm afraid from, uh... Dracula!
Frank: Thanks a lot. Thanks, Viktor!
Viktor: [as he is escorted outside] Afraid from Wolfmens, afraid from the sharks!
Frank: It's okay. Thank you, Viktor! Thanks a lot!

View Quote Viktor: Officer Torres, my friend says you are a stallion.
Officer Delores: Mr. Navorski! Mr. Navorski...
Viktor: Stallion.
Officer Delores: [surprised] A what?
Viktor: A stallion. Like a horse.
Officer Delores: [embarrassed] Stand behind the yellow line!
Viktor: It's horse! Beautiful horse!
Officer Delores: Who said that?
Viktor: My food! My friend drives the food.

View Quote Woody: Trixie, the Battlesaurs are not playing. They've never been played with. They don't even know they're toys!
Buzz: Incredible, isn't it?

View Quote [first lines]
Bonnie:
Woody: [as Santa] Ho, ho, howdy everyone. That sure was a fun Christmas. [Bonnie crunching] Hello, villagers. Shoo! Excuse me, pardon me, thank you. Hey, there, Baby Reindeer. Let's spread some Christmas cheer.
Trixie: I am the goblin fairy. I'll make you the most beautiful of all. Pling! Hooray!