Saving Private Ryan Tom Hanks Quotes & Sayings

I just know that every man I kill the farther away from home I feel. — Tom Hanks

A woman journalist in England asked me why Americans usually wrote about their childhood and a past that happened only in imagination, why they never wrote about the present. This bothered me until I realized why - that a novelist wants to know how it comes out, that he can't be omnipotent writing a book about the present, particularly this one. — John Steinbeck

We talked
recent history only
and Lucas relayed the story of how Francis came to be his roommate. He showed up at the door one night, demanding to be let in. Napped on the sofa for an hour, then demanded to be let out. It turned into a nightly ritual, with him staying longer and longer, until at some point I realized he'd moved in. He's basically the most brazen squatter ever. — Tammara Webber

The more men I kill, the more far away from home I feel
Saving Private Ryan — Tom Hanks

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

Think of the millions of young men who died fighting for democracy. We spit on their graves when we let democracy slip away into the sewer of illegal money. — Doris "Granny D" Haddock

I'm at that great level where fans will stop and say 'hi,' which I love, but the paparazzi don't care, which is incredible. — Katie Featherston

I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone. — Cyrano De Bergerac