Tom Hanks Quotes

If you look at the heritage of the cable business, if you can own a niche, you have a good chance of succeeding.

You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact.

If you can survive 'Saturday Night Live,' then you're good as far as show business is concerned.

It was a good chance for us to play for people who would never have heard us otherwise.

If your parents didn't have any children, there's a good chance that you won't have any.

The biggest thing, I think, is to stay healthy and make the fewest mistakes, and then you can win... The margin of error is so small in the NFL, so if you can do those two things - keep your team healthy and make the fewest mistakes each Sunday - you have a good chance of going to the Super Bowl.

I feel very confident in my skiing. I know I have a good chance to win any race I start.

There is a great deal of advertising that is much better than the product. When that happens, all that the good advertising will do is put you out of business faster.

If I spread myself too thin, I'm not a good actor, I'm not a good mother, and I'm just really high-strung - and everybody hates me.

I always thought that there was a really good chance that I wasn't going to get married.

If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

By now, you've heard endless warnings about the risk of short, trivial passwords. There's a good chance you ignore them.

Over the years, I've come to recognize that democratization in Ethiopia is not just a matter of choice. It's a matter of national survival. I am deeply convinced that we either democratize and have a good chance of surviving, or if we fail to do so, we disintegrate.

Seems to me that this business, for actors anyway, is not so much about whether or not you do good work. It's about whether or not you get the chance to do good work.

So many people comment that I'm much more mature than average. In this business, you can get taken advantage of if you're not aware and you're not tough.

I'm lucky to come from a very musical family. If you put a record on and turn the volume up, there's a pretty good chance you'll have a lot of people dancing very quickly.

I like to play cards. I'm not very good, because I don't want to calculate, I just play by instinct. But I've learned a lot of business philosophy by playing poker.

When you're an established name, you know that a children's book will have a pretty good chance of getting picked up. Like Madonna. It's not that I had this great idea. Actually, in my case, it was a great idea.

Facebook's the real deal. Nobody can buy Facebook now. Everybody has taken an angle at it. But Facebook may be the place that organizes everybody's personal information. It's got a very good chance of being that.

If everybody is doing it one way, there's a good chance you can find your niche by going exactly in the opposite direction.

Also, when I started racing he knew a lot of people and it was more easy for me to find the first bike, so I have a good chance for sure.

I think we have a good chance of surviving long enough to colonize the solar system.

I'm planning to be here forever, but I know at some point I'll probably have to give it up. If you live to 100, there's a very good chance you'll live forever. Because very few people die after 100.

Could we have prevented in 100% certainty? I don't think anything is that certain. However, we would have had a very, very good chance for preventing it.

If I go into a restaurant there's a very good chance that I'm going to spend my time being the mayor. If I want to have a good time, I'm happier having dinner here.