Tom Hanks Net Worth

Tom Hanks's Quotes

• It's just as hard staying happily married as it is doing movies.
• I've made over 20 movies, and 5 of them are good.
• [on the CGI used in The Polar Express (2004)] It's the same stuff they used in that fourth Lord of the Rings movie. Or was it the 19th Lord of the Rings movie? You know, the one where Boldo and Jingy travel across the bridge? I don't know, I don't know their names. When I watch Lord of the Rings, I just think, "Someone got their finger stuck on the word processor for too long".
• If you're funny, if there's something that makes you laugh, then everyday's going to be okay.
• I do not want to admit to the world that I can be a bad person. It is just that I don't want anyone to have false expectations. Moviemaking is a harsh, volatile business, and unless you can be ruthless, too, there's a good chance that you are going to disappear off the scene pretty quickly. So appearances can be deceptive, particularly in Hollywood.

Interesting Facts about Tom Hanks

1. Is a frequent guest host on Saturday Night Live (1975). One of his best-known characters on said show, "Mr. Short-Term Memory", is named after him: Hanks uses his real-life middle name, Jeffrey, as the character (Jeff Morrow)'s first name.
2. Received the Distinguished Public Service Award, the United States Navy's highest civilian honor, on Veterans Day 1999 for his work in the epic Saving Private Ryan (1998).
3. Entertainment Weekly chose him as the only actor worthy of $20 million.
4. Dislocated his shoulder when he fell through a rotting floor in a building in Germany while scouting locations with Steven Spielberg for the HBO series Band of Brothers (2001) (1999).
5. Second actor to win back-to-back Best Actor Oscars, for his work in Philadelphia (1993) and Forrest Gump (1994). The first was Spencer Tracy, for Captains Courageous (1937) and Boys Town (1938).
6. Ranked #17 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list (October 1997).
7. Attended Skyline High School in Oakland, California.
8. Attended Chabot College in Hayward, California.
9. Attended California State University, Sacramento.
10. Voted best actor by the readers of Us magazine (1995).
11. Younger brother of Sandra Hanks and Larry Hanks and older brother of Jim Hanks.
12. After a one-shot guest appearance on Happy Days (1974), producer Ron Howard asked him to read for a secondary role in Splash (1984), and he got the lead role instead.
13. Married his first wife Samantha Lewes (real name: Susan Dillingham) two months after their son Colin's birth.
14. Hanks cited the help of a nearby ice cream shop which helped him gain 30 pounds for his role in A League of Their Own (1992).
15. Received emergency treatment for serious staph infection in leg after returning from overseas location shoot (1999).
16. Was asked to play the title role in Jerry Maguire (1996), which eventually went to Tom Cruise.
17. His Oscar acceptance speech for Philadelphia (1993) led to the plot of the movie In & Out (1997). Hanks thanked a gay teacher in his speech.
18. Has another brother who is a professor at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois.
19. Received American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award, presented by fellow Oscar winner Steven Spielberg, the youngest ever to receive that award (12 June 2002).
20. Returned to his old high school, Skyline High School in Oakland, California, to dedicate a renovated theater named for Rawley T. Farnsworth, the retired drama teacher he thanked in his Philadelphia (1993) Oscar speech. Oakland Tribune reports Hanks donated about 1/4 of the $465,000 cost of the project. Then he led the audience of some 1000 people in a chorus of "There's No Business Like Show Business" (6 March 2002).