Colin Hanks Quotes

If you look at who you were a year ago and aren't somewhat embarrassed, you're not growing as a person.

Actors are a funny lot. Sometimes they're not satisfied with where they are. I include myself.

I have seen ups and downs. I am 10 films old. People say I have changed. But, I don't sense any change in myself. If I had to change, I would have changed in my second or third film.

I'm not arrogant enough to look back on my career and criticize my choices. It's really not my place.

I've worked a lot. I don't like to watch myself. I don't go to the movies unless I have to go to the premiere.

I think the people who did well, or are happy, in a youth industry, they define themselves out of the business after a decade or so.

If we are not regularly deeply embarrassed by who we are, the journey to self-knowledge hasn’t begun.

As good and as smart as you may be, no one knows everything. I truly wish I was as smart as I thought I was when I started my first company.

It's weird, sometimes I still see myself as just starting out. I tend to forget how much I've been doing, but in the beginning it is about the hustle, being out there and doing the work. Nothing is going to come to you, you have to get out there and do the work, and I've been doing that. But sometimes it's good to take a break and let these things air out. Reflect and take it in.

Well, of course, every actor's limited, and I am the first one to admit it, in all honesty, when I think that I've hit the wall a bit. I'm not ashamed at all, I think it's a process that you have to go through. That's how you learn.

Because I didn't go to drama school, I didn't start in the business with any toolbox apart from enthusiasm and instinct. I'd throw everything at a part and sometimes realise that I had hit my limits.

You think you can go into all those auditions not knowing who you are? The work came after I found my sense of self - when I wasn't so manic and desperate.

I am just at that stage of wondering where I go from here. I came into this business almost by accident, but now it has become serious. What started as a bit of fun, something to do other than be a model, has taken on a different career curve. I have been forced to ask where that curve is going to end up.

I don't always like my own behavior. I haven't known anyone who is perfect all the time.

Maybe sometimes I have been wrong with some movies. Anyway, I try to do my best.

Life changed at 40 for me, as predicted by my acting teacher when I was leaving college. I became more hirable and more interesting... I'm not sure why.

People tend to scare you pointing out your shortfalls. If you voluntarily admit your faults, then people won't have anything to point out.

It is much easier to find fault with others, than to be faultless ourselves.

I'm very observant and very instinctive. In life, you have to have the vulnerability to accept when you are to blame. And I do have that, and I am open enough to say it.

I suppose I have very undesirable traits. I am very critical, which is very undesirable. But it is good from a business point of view.

I don't see myself as the perfect person at all.

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

Everything I'm saying shouldn't be taken so serious. I'm playing, but at the same token, I'm acknowledging that I'm not always the perfect man; I'm not always doing the right things. That's who I am. I'm working to be better.

I have to be careful not to be too proud in life, because there is always room for improvement.

Early in my investment-banking career, I realized I was on a path that others had set out for me.