There's a small percentage of people who can act. There's a small percentage who get to do this for a living. There's a swath of the population that are able to keep a story in their head and fight all the battles against self-consciousness and the surreal unnaturalness of acting in a movie. The technical aspects you can learn fairly quickly.
Tom HanksAll that most parents hope is that their children are happy, funny, well adjusted, and have a passion for something in their lives. What would negate everything is if the next generation that we're responsible for has a passionless existence. And that's cause for occasional sleepless nights.
Tom HanksMost people want to be able to go off and deal with their day - stop in here, run errands there - and when you can't do that, going out becomes a chore.
Tom HanksWe're part of a greater humanity and we can actually affect the world by the choices we make once we leave the theater.
Tom Hanks