#on

There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while. ↗

— Tom Hanks

#between #concept #difference #i #i can

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

#almost #along #came #college #go

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 recognised that. For those two hours, it made me feel like I belonged to something really good. ↗

— Tom Hanks

#belonged #brought #even #feel #film

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

#bang #could #doing #had #i

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

#battles #different #fight #fought #i

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

#around #combination #find #hard #head

Human beings do things for a reason, even if sometimes it's the wrong reason. ↗

— Tom Hanks

#even #human #human beings #reason #sometimes

If they could offer up a way to go to the moon that wouldn't kill you, I'd sign up. ↗

— Tom Hanks

#go #i #kill #moon #offer

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

#december #favorite #front #house #i

My TV show had been cancelled; nothing else had gone anywhere; some alliances I had made petered out and nothing came of them and I was looking at a long, long year ahead of me in which there was no work on the horizon, the phone wasn't ringing. I had two kids, one of them a brand-new baby, and I didn't know if I would be able to keep my house. ↗

— Tom Hanks

#ahead #anywhere #baby #been #brand-new