Date of Birth
9 July 1956, Concord, California, USA
Birth Name
Thomas Jeffrey Hanks
Height
6' (1.83 m)
Mini Biography
Born in California, Tom Hanks grew up in what he calls a "fractured" family. His parents were antecedents in the development of alliance dissolution law in that state, and Tom abashed about a lot, active with a assumption of step-families. No problems, no abuse, no alcoholism - aloof a abashed childhood. He had no acting acquaintance in academy and, in fact, credits the actuality that he couldn't get casting in a academy comedy with absolutely starting his career. He went downtown, auditioned for a association amphitheater play, was arrive by the administrator of that comedy to go to Cleveland, and there his acting career started. He met his additional wife, extra Rita Wilson on the set of his television appearance "Bosom Buddies" (1980) - she appeared in one adventure in the additional division (1981), "Bosom Buddies: All You Need Is Love (#2.7)" (1981). They accept two children, and Tom has addition son and babe by his aboriginal wife, Samantha Lewes. In 1996, he fabricated his aboriginal footfall abaft the camera, administering and autograph as able-bodied as starring in the film, That Thing You Do! (1996).
Spouse
Rita Wilson | (30 April 1988 - present) 2 children |
Samantha Lewes | (24 January 1978 - 19 March 1987) (divorced) 2 children |
Trade Mark
Playing conflicted regular guys
Frequently plays ordinary characters in extraordinary situations
His characters are often immensely likeable ordinary guys
Trivia
Is a common bedfellow host on "Saturday Night Live" (1975).Received the Distinguished Public Service Award, the U. S. Navy's accomplished noncombatant honor, on Veterans Day 1999 for his assignment in the cine Saving Private Ryan (1998).
Entertainment Weekly chose him as the alone amateur aces of $20 million.
Dislocated his accept back he fell through a adulteration attic in a architecture in Germany while aloof locations with Steven Spielberg for the HBO alternation "Band of Brothers" (2001) (1999).
Second amateur to win back-to-back Best Amateur Oscars, for his assignment in Philadelphia (1993) and Forrest Gump (1994). The aboriginal was Spencer Tracy, for Captains Courageous (1937) and Boys Town (1938).
Ranked #17 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Cine Stars of All Time" account (October 1997).
Attended Skyline High School in Oakland, California.
Attended Chabot College in Hayward, California.
Attended California State University, Sacramento.
Voted best amateur by the readers of "Us" annual (1995).
Younger brother of Sandra Hanks and Larry Hanks and earlier brother of Jim Hanks.
After a one-shot bedfellow actualization on "Happy Days" (1974), ambassador Ron Howard asked him to apprehend for a accessory allotment in Splash (1984), and he got the advance instead.
Father, with aboriginal wife Samantha Lewes, of Colin Hanks (born on 24 November 1977) and Elizabeth Hanks (born on 17 May 1982).
Married his aboriginal wife Samantha Lewes (real name: Susan Dillingham) two months afterwards their son Colin's birth.
Hanks cited the advice of a adjacent ice chrism boutique which helped him accretion 30 pounds for his role in A League of Their Own (1992).
Received emergency analysis for austere staph infection in leg afterwards abiding from across area shoot (1999).
Was asked to comedy the appellation role in Jerry Maguire (1996).
Born at 11:17 AM
His Oscar accepting accent for 1993's Philadelphia (1993) led to the artifice of the cine In & Out (1997). Hanks thanked a gay abecedary in his speech.Has addition brother who is a assistant at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana, IL.
Received American Blur Institute's Life Achievement Award, presented by adolescent Oscar champ Steven Spielberg, the youngest anytime to accept that accolade (12 June 2002).
Returned to his old aerial school, Skyline Aerial Academy in Oakland, California, to address a adapted amphitheater called for Rawley T. Farnsworth, the retired ball abecedary he thanked in his Philadelphia (1993) Oscar speech. Oakland Tribune letters Hanks donated about 1/4 of the $465,000 amount of the project. Then he led the admirers of some 1000 bodies in a choir of "There's No Business Like Appearance Business" (6 March 2002).
Is a affiliate of the International Thespian Society (a accumulation acknowledging theatre for aerial academy acceptance internationally).
Father, with Rita Wilson, of Chet Hanks (born on 4 August 1990) and Truman Theodore (born on 26 December 1995).
Jim Lovell, whom Hanks played in Apollo 13 (1995), is absolutely left-handed, but Hanks banned to address with his larboard duke for the movie.
He is a third cousin, four ancestors removed, of above U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. Their accepted antecedent is John Hanks (1680 - 1740), who was the great-great-grandfather of Lincoln, and the great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather of Tom Hanks. It is frequently (albeit incorrectly) appear that they are fourth cousins, four times removed, but Thomas Hanks (b. 1819) and Abraham Lincoln were both great-great-grandchildren of John Hanks, authoritative them third cousins. Tom Hanks was Thomas Hanks' great-great-grandson, authoritative his affiliation to Abraham Lincolns four ancestors removed.
Ranked #13 in Premiere's 2003 anniversary Power 100 List. Had ranked #15 in 2002.
Is a diehard Cleveland Indians baseball aggregation fan.
Ranked #1 on Star TV's Top Ten Box Office stars of the 1990s (2003)
Lost 30 lbs. for his role in Philadelphia (1993).
Gained and after absent 50 lbs. for his role in Cast Away (2000).
Is a fan of English Premier League soccer aggregation Aston Villa and was presented with a shirt on a TV appearance with the book 'Hanks 1' on the back.
Has been referred to by abounding as "the avant-garde James Stewart".
Biography in: "Who's Who in Comedy" by Ronald L. Smith, pg. 205-206. New York: Facts on File, 1992. ISBN 0816023387
His ballsy Oscar-winning gay appearance Andrew Beckett in the 1993 blur Philadelphia (1993) was ranked #49 on the Amerian Blur Institute's heroes account of the 100 years of The Greatest Screen Heroes and Villians.
He was voted the 26th Greatest Cine Star of all time by Entertainment Weekly.
His three favourite bands/artists are Elvis Presley, Patrick Rondat and Alabama Thunderpussy.
His aboriginal wife Samantha Lewes died of blight 14 years afterwards their divorce.
Had fabricated three films with administrator Steven Spielberg, all of which are angry to Europe. Saving Clandestine Ryan (1998) revolved about his appearance and his infantry assemblage gluttonous out a missing clandestine in Europe during WW II. Catch Me If You Can (2002) complex his appearance tracking bottomward Frank Abagnale Jr. in France and in The Terminal (2004), his appearance was from the fabulous eastern European country of Krakohzia.
Shortly afore the absolution of Columbia Pictures' Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001), he was one of several actors speaking out adjoin the use of "synthespians" (computer-generated actors) in the abode of flesh-and-blood humans. Nevertheless, he took the advance role in the computer-animated blur The Polar Express (2004), a blur highly-publicized for its use of new (and expensive) address of agenda actors.
Between 1994 and 2004, he was the aerialist nominated for the best Academy Awards (four times, forth with Sean Penn, Meryl Streep, Judi Dench' and Ed Harris) and won the best (twice).
Was advised for the role of Peter Banning (Peter Pan) in Hook (1991).
Was listed as a abeyant appointee on both the 2005 and 2007 Razzie Award nominating ballots. He was appropriate in the Worst Actor class on the 2005 election for his roles in the films The Polar Express (2004) (referred to as "Bi-Polar Express" on the ballot), The Ladykillers (2004) and The Terminal (2004). He was appropriate afresh in the Worst Actor class two years later, for his achievement in The Da Vinci Code (2006). He bootless accept either nomination.
Has been acceptable accompany with Bruce Springsteen back his youth.
He already formed as a auberge bellman. Some of the celebrity guests whose accoutrements he agitated were Cher, Sidney Poitier, Slappy White and Bill Withers.
Premiere Magazine ranked him as #28 on a account of the Greatest Movie Stars of All Time in their Stars in Our Constellation affection (2005).
He is an ecology conservationist and generally advocates and supports accustomed causes.
In three of his movies, he has had a arena area he is abandoned at sea: Splash (1984), Joe Versus the Volcano (1990), and Casting Away (2000).
Has formed with two actors who played Howard Hughes. In Philadelphia (1993), he formed with Jason Robards, who played Hughes in Melvin and Howard (1980) for administrator Jonathan Demme. His casting acquaintance in Catch Me If You Can (2002) was Leonardo DiCaprio, who played Hughes in The Aviator (2004) for Martin Scorsese.
He and extra Meg Ryan accept been co-stars in three movies as adulation interests: Sleepless in Seattle (1993), Joe Versus the Volcano (1990) and You've Got Mail (1998).
Shares his altogether with Jack White, David O'Hara, Courtney Love, Chris Cooper, O.J. Simpson and Donald Rumsfeld.His ancestors originally came from England. The name "Hanks" can be traced aback several centuries.
Born to Amos Mefford Hanks, a chef, and his wife Janet Marylyn Frager, a hospital worker, his parents afar in 1960.
Has been Affiliate of the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Actors Branch) back 2001.
Related to Bill Cosby's wife Camille O. Cosby (née Camille Olivia Hanks), as both allotment a biological birth to Abraham Lincoln through his mother, Nancy Hanks.
Stepson of the above Frances Wong, whom his ancestor affiliated in 1965.
Sold airheaded and atom as a jailbait at the Oakland Coliseum.
His achievement as Josh Baskin in Big (1988) is ranked #15 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Performances of All Time (2006).
His achievement as Chuck Noland in Casting Away (2000) is ranked #46 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Performances of All Time (2006).
He and President George Bush are both accompanying to 19th-century Presidents. Bush, a Republican, is descended, by way of his mother's family, from Franklin Pierce, one of the aftermost Democratic presidents afore Abraham Lincoln. Hanks, a Democrat, is descended from the ancestors of Lincoln's mother.
His top bristles best admired films are 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), The Godfather (1972), Fargo (1996), Elephant (2003) and Boogie Nights (1997), with Stanley Kubrick's blur captivation the top ranking.
His achievement as Forrest Gump in Forrest Gump (1994) is ranked #43 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time.
Is the third most-represented amateur (behind Sidney Poitier and Gary Cooper) on the American Blur Institute's 100 Best Inspiring Movies of All Time, with four of his films authoritative the list. They are: Forrest Gump (1994) at #37, Philadelphia (1993) at #20, Apollo 13 (1995) at #12, and Saving Private Ryan (1998) at #10.
Ranked #16 on Premiere's 2006 "Power 50" list. Had ranked #16 in 2005 as well.
Biography/bibliography in: "Contemporary Authors". Volume 244, pages 199-202. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2006.
He already aggregate a almanac (with Tom Cruise and Will Smith) as the amateur to brilliant in the best afterwards $100 million-grossing movies (7). As of 2008, Smith holds the almanac abandoned with 8 movies.
Frequently works with administrator Steven Spielberg, and is accompanying to Nancy Hanks, the mother of Abraham Lincoln. Ironically, he is not complex in Spielberg's blur about Lincoln, admitting his common captivation in actual projects.
Both his affectionate grandparents, admitting built-in in California, had Portuguese ancestry, originally from the Azores Islands.
Forbes annual estimated his 1999 balance at $71.5 million.
Cited as America's Admired Movie Brilliant in Harris Polls conducted in 2002, 2004, 2005, a almanac cardinal of times as the #1 favorite. Harrison Ford and Clint Eastwood are the alone added actors to accept accomplished that feat.
Was a affiliate of Monty Python for one night only, bushing in for John Cleese, at A Concert For George.
Married Rita Wilson at Saint Sophia's Church, converting from Roman Catholicism to Eastern Orthodox Christianity.
Was in appearance at Princess Diana's burial forth with Steven Spielberg, Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, amid others.
Auditioned for the role of Joel in Risky Business (1983), which eventually went to Tom Cruise.
Has additionally accustomed Joe Spano, above co-star of the TV alternation "Hill Street Blues" (1981), as actuality addition of his best important aboriginal inspirations.
Favorite baseball aggregation is the Cleveland Indians. He purchased a bean in the advanced of Jacobs Field back it was built.
In 2007, Forbes Annual appear that his balance were estimated to be $74 actor the antecedent year.
The asteroid "12818 tomhanks" was called afterwards him.
Enjoys accession typewriters, purchasing over 80 of them about the globe.
Publicly accustomed Senator Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential election.
Is a die adamantine Oakland Raiders fan. Featured in the documentary Rebels of Oakland: The A's, the Raiders, the '70s (2003) (TV).
Is a fan of "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" (1999), and has bidding admiration to one day bedfellow brilliant on the show.
Is a fan of "Doctor Who" (1963).
Was originally casting in the bifold role of "Charlie Kaufman/Donald Kaufman" in Adaptation. (2002), but after alone out. Nicolas Cage, who went on to accept a Best Amateur Oscar choice for his performance, was casting instead.
When he appeared on "The Tonight Appearance with Conan O'Brien" (2009), Conan's aftermost NBC appearance in L.A. (Jan. 22, 2010), the Tonight Appearance Band played The Beatles' "Lovely Rita" as Hanks fabricated his entry, assuredly a nod to the admirable Rita Wilson, Tom's admired wife.
Lives in Pacific Palisades, Malibu, California and Ketchum, Idaho.
Has one granddaughter, Olivia Jane Hanks (b. 1 February 2011), via his son Colin Hanks.
Both Tom Hanks and his son Colin accept been "Not My Job" quiz contestants on the National Public Radio appearance "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!". Both won the quiz.
Personal Quotes
It's aloof as adamantine . . . blockage appropriately affiliated as it is accomplishing movies.I've fabricated over 20 movies, and 5 of them are good.
[on the CGI acclimated in The Polar Express (2004)] It's the aforementioned actuality they acclimated in that fourth "Lord of the Rings" movie. Or was it the 19th "Lord of the Rings" movie? You know, the one area Boldo and Jingy biking beyond the bridge? I don't know, I don't apperceive their names. Back I watch "Lord of the Rings", I aloof think, "Someone got their feel ashore on the chat processor for too long".
[interview in "Women's World", 10/11/05] If you're funny, if there's commodity that makes you laugh, again every day's activity to be okay.
I do not appeal to accept to the apple that I can be a bad person. It is aloof that I don't appeal anyone to accept apocryphal expectations. Moviemaking is a harsh, airy business, and unless you can be ruthless, too, there's a acceptable adventitious that you are activity to abandon off the arena appealing quickly. So appearances can be deceptive, decidedly in Hollywood.
My wife keeps on cogent me my affliction accountability is that I accumulate things to myself and arise relaxed. But I am absolutely in a allowance in my own arch and not audition a affair anyone is saying.
Some bodies go to bed at night thinking, "That was a acceptable day." I am one of those who worries and asks, "How did I spiral up today?"
I adulation what I do for a living, it's the greatest job in the world, but you accept to survive an abominable lot of absorption that you don't absolutely deserve and you accept to animate up to your able responsibilities and I'm consistently aggravating to antithesis that with what is absolutely important.
I charge say that I do battle with the bulk of money I make, but at the end of the day what am I gonna say? I took beneath money so Rupert Murdoch could accept more?
My admired acceptable Christmas cine that I like to watch is All Quiet on the Western Front (1930). It's aloof not December afterwards that cine in my house.
The year I was born, 1956, was the aiguille year for babies actuality born, and there are added bodies about our age than anybody else. We could drove these new ancestors if we absitively to.
Regarding the WGA Strike and how it could affect the Academy Awards: The appearance charge go on, that is one of the credo of everything. I am a affiliate of the lath of governors of the Academy, and we absolutely appeal to put on a abundant appearance and account the films that accept appear out in the advance of the year. I aloof achievement that the big guys who accomplish big decisions, up aerial in their accumulated boardrooms and what not, get bottomward to honest acceding and anybody can get aback to work.
As you know, the acclamation amid [Thomas] Jefferson and John Adams was abounding with innuendo, lies, a bitter, accessory columnist and disinformation. How abundant we've appear so far back then.
In this business, careers are based aloft longevity.
If I was to absolute Ron Howard, I agreement you, I would put him through a active hell every day. I would appeal so abundant of him. We wouldn't abdicate until he leaves the set crying. Weeping! Spent!
My assignment is added fun than fun but, best of all, it's still actual scary. You are consistently walking some affectionate of aerial wire. I assumption it's like actuality a sportsman. Back bodies ask abundant football stars or cricketers what they will absence best back the time comes to stop, they'll acquaint you that it's that moment back the brawl comes to them. In that moment, there's that admirable anxiety, that activity of "Please don't let me spiral this up". If I didn't accept the adventitious to do what I do, it's that I would absence added than anything. That alarm is what makes me feel alive. It's a admirable feeling, clashing annihilation abroad in the world.
[on Charlie Wilson] Wilson may accept lived his activity in a assertive way, but to accord him his due, he burst the Achilles' heel of the Soviet Union. It was aloof nine months afterwards they pulled out of Afghanistan that the Berlin bank came down. And one of the affidavit it fell was that the Soviet government knew that the chrism of its armed armament had been decimated by a agglomeration of bodies in a abode alleged Afghanistan. That meant they couldn't avert their borders in East Germany and Poland. That has Charlie Wilson all over it.
On The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990): Back we were authoritative it, that cine was huge. We couldn't accomplish a move anywhere in New York City. Everybody was talking about it. Everybody was miscast, me particularly. Brian De Palma deals with iconography added than filmmaking. He is the best uncompromising filmmaker - both in a acceptable way and a bad way - that you'll anytime appear across. This is the guy who fabricated Scarface (1983). So his booty on it one aloof one of those things. You can't booty a book like that, that has afflicted the way bodies allocution and anticipate and change it into a acceptable movie, or adapt the advance of what the antecedent actual is talking about. It may not construe in a way that is activity to work.
[on "The Pacific" (2010)] Aback in Apple War II, we beheld the Japanese as 'yellow, slant-eyed dogs' that believed in altered gods. They were out to abate us because our way of active was different. We, in turn, capital to abate them because they were different. Does that complete familiar, by any chance, to what's activity on today?
[In a New York Times commodity on Julia Roberts]: What am I, aloof addition in your continued band of I Adulation Julia calls?
(1989, on Available Affair (1984)) I'm the alone one at the available affair not to get laid. The cine is aloof a awkward rock-and-roll ball that has tits in it. It was fabricated back the studios were authoritative lots of "Porky's" and "Animal House" kinds of things.
(1989, Playboy Magazine) Back you accept a hit, you get so abundant absorption paid to you. Splash (1984) fabricated eighty amateur dollars and Available Affair (1984) fabricated forty million. You think, Oh, I apperceive how to do this. But you can't alike activate to apperceive annihilation afterwards two movies, admitting you can get aloof and lazy. I didn't become an amateur to advance a personality band or to get ability over people. I went into this because it's fun, because it's a abundant way to accomplish a living. That absolutely governs my acknowledgment to it all. But you get all this attention. Your arch can comedy all sorts of camp tricks. By now, I anticipate I accept a appealing acceptable butt of how this actuality works. I fought my battles a continued time ago...I assumption you accept a aeon back you anticipate you deserve all the absorption you're getting. You accept bodies surrounding you, cogent you that you're the greatest affair in the world. I candidly don't anticipate I accept an aggrandized appearance of myself now. But it happens.
(1989, on The Man with One Red Shoe (1985)) Not a actual acceptable movie. It doesn't accept any real, bright focus to it. It isn't about annihilation decidedly that you can candidly understand. It fabricated no money at all.
(1989, on Nothing in Common (1986)) Has a bit of a breach personality, because we're aggravating to be actual funny in the aforementioned cine in which we're aggravating to be actual touching. It's the best assignment that I had done up to then. It didn't go through the roof, but it did actual well.
(1989, on Every Time We Say Goodbye (1986)) Disappeared afterwards a trace, alike admitting it's apparently the best visually admirable cine I've made.
(1989, on Dragnet (1987)) Fabricated a lot of money but apparently not about as abundant as anticipated. It's convoluted. There are problems with it. It should be funnier.(1989, on Punchline (1988)) That's the hardest one to accomplish any array of acumen on. The cine didn't do that well, which was actually disappointing. If I were activity to bulk out why, I would end up demography a agglomeration of bargain shots at an abominable lot of bodies who approved absolute hard, and that's not fair. What can you say? But it's the best assignment I've anytime done. We were talking some absolute naked truths about the characters and, in a lot of ways, about myself. I was too close. The guy in Punchline apparently has the affliction aspects of my affliction aspects. He is acutely competitive, for one thing. Aggressive to a fault. He is clumsy to antithesis his circadian actuality so that absolute activity and what he does for a active acquire an according weight. I've actually had those problems; I anticipate any amateur has: The abandoned time you actually feel animate is aback you're working. I've gotten a little added complete aback I was like that, but....I anticipate that's what actually drives actors actually stark-raving mad and why they advance ulcers and biologic problems. Allotment of it is the crisis factor-every time, you feel like you're never activity to get addition adventitious again. They're activity to bolt on, and that'll be it. Alike aback you're alive a lot, you think, 'How abounding of these do I get?', It's like they accord you abandoned so abounding dollars in your wallet and already those dollars are spent, you're broke.
(1989, on alive with Jackie Gleason in Nothing in Common (1986)) I was abashed up to a point, but we formed as peers. I was actually civil and respectful. He wasn't activity a hundred percent as far as his health, so he was affectionate of slow. But it was amazing: He came in absolutely at nine, formed beeline through to five. He had it down, knew what he capital to do, got up and did it. He was aloof very, actual professional.
(1989, Playboy Magazine) As a child, I had an absurd bulk of abandon to do whatever I capital to do. By the time I was in inferior aerial school, I was abnormality around, freely, as abounding as I capital to. A chargeless spirit.
(1989, on why his parents divorced) Mostly because of money. They weren't able-bodied off, and neither one of them could accord with four kids at one time. Also, my dad capital us. Aback then, I've had a annulment myself and I went aback and talked to my parents. I asked them how they could do that, breach us up. The acknowledgment was that you do what you acquire to do at the time. Afterwards that, my dad met addition woman and affiliated her and we confused to Reno. She had bristles kids of her own. Suddenly, it was, like-bang, zoom!-there were eight kids around. We were absolute strangers, all advance together. I bethink in academy we had to draw a account of our abode and ancestors and I ran out of places to put people. I put them on the roof. I drew Dad in bed, sleeping, aback he formed so adamantine in the restaurant. Aback he and she breach up, I never saw those bodies again.
(1989, on his on-screen heroes) Robert Duvall. All he has to do is airing beyond the street. And actually Jack Nicholson. And Robert De Niro. I would see whatever Jason Robards did. Steve McQueen; he was actually cool. Also, blur directors. Stanley Kubrick was a huge affair for me; 2001: A Amplitude Odyssey (1968) was apparently the best affecting film, movie, story, aesthetic package, whatever, that I anytime saw. It was aloof bigger. It afflicted me much, abounding added than annihilation I had anytime seen. There was aloof awe. I've apparent that cine twenty-two times. In theaters, not on video tape. Every time I saw it, I saw article new, article abroad that Kubrick had put in. He was able to append my disbelief. I aloof felt, We are in space. The abandoned added things that afflicted me as greatly were account "Catcher in the Rye" and award out, in the fifth or sixth grade, about the Holocaust...I bethink activity as abandoned as "Holden Caulfield" did, thinking, This isn't talking about me, or my life, yet I apperceive how he feels. Addition affair about that book: I bethink actuality actual afflicted at seeing the chat applesauce in print. "All that David Copperfield affectionate of crap..."
(1989, on experimenting with drugs) As to drugs, there isn't anybody who didn't smoke pot. And I additionally had done some blow. But I never did LSD. I never alike did Quãaludes or annihilation like that, admitting all of this stuff, abnormally for addition who formed in the theater, was abundant. Smoking pot aloof fabricated me the stupidest animal actuality in the world.
(1989, Playboy Magazine) I anticipate my apple angel would acquire been actual altered if I had absent my virginity in aerial school, but I didn't. No Bachelor Party antics, I'm afraid. I aloof had a adherent for a continued time. But article important did appear in aerial school. I took a ball chic that bent my career. In the advance of ten weeks, I saw bristles absolutely altered types of theater. I acquainted that the amphitheater was as bewitched a abode as existed, and I capital to be complex in it. So I majored in amphitheater arts. Afterwards I saw a Berkeley Repertory Amphitheater assembly of The Iceman Cometh, I knew I'd do annihilation to be a allotment of it. I went to Chabot College, area they had a abundant amphitheater department. I started out operating the lights and architecture the sets. Later on, I began to accomplish and went off to the Abundant Lakes Shakespeare Festival in Cleveland as bondservant labor. That was my big break. I went aback to Sacramento as a able amateur and afresh went to New York with my wife and child. It was a war of survival, really. I was a kid who had never been in such a big burghal before. I was on unemployment and aggravating to act. My wife was an extra as well, and she was advancing that as best she could. This went on for two years. Finally, I got a job in a low-budget movie, and afterwards that, I got a development accord with ABC and we confused to California.
(1989, on landing "Bosom Buddies" (1980)) I had lived in New York for a brace of years and had developed, I guess, a aegis apparatus aback it came to auditions. And that was not to affliction about them too much. So I was able to go in and be so casual, so airy about impressing those bodies that I'd spiral it up-as adjoin to aggravating to appearance them how abundant and different a aptitude you are. Bodies abhorrence you aback you do that. Eventually, a development accord was struck, which meant I would apparently assignment in some ABC-TV series. It formed out to be "Bosom Buddies". We all had a abundant time. I anticipation we did some actually accomplished television shows. We, as actors, got to be a very, actual finely-honed team. It was a abundant marriage, as far as that goes...By the end of two seasons, we were appealing able-bodied flagged. We were aloof exhausted. Everybody apparently would acquire said the appearance was canceled at the appropriate time, because we would acquire amorphous to bite anniversary other's active off.
(1989, on alive with Penny Marshall on Big (1988)) Well, one affair she did that collection me crazy was to analysis over and over and over afresh with all sorts of actors. There were scenes that I charge acquire done two hundred times on video band and afresh two hundred added in the call process. Penny aloof capital to see all sorts of things. I would say, "I can't do this arena one added time. I don't affliction who it is. I cannot apprehend these aforementioned goddamn words one added time or by the time we get to authoritative the movie, I'm activity to abhorrence it so abounding that I'm not activity to do it at all". Well, what happened instead was, I knew the actual so able-bodied that by the time we attempt it, it angry out to be the best apposite of all the movies that I've done. There are abandoned assertive bodies I would acquire that from. Penny is one. To best others, I would say, "Look, you either acquaint me absolutely what is amiss or what is appropriate about this or I'm activity to asphyxiate you".
(1989, on filming the keyboard dancing arrangement in Big (1988)) It was exhausting. We apposite until we dropped. Robert Loggia plays three sets of tennis every day, so he was in appearance for it. It was like jumping braiding for three and a bisected hours every time we did the scene. It was actually adamantine work.
(1989, on aeon he admires) Sean Penn brings an candor to his assignment that I anticipate we all ambition we had. Mickey Rourke is a guy I'll pay bristles dollars to airing beyond the artery and see. There's article he does that he endless up his movies with, whether they're acceptable or bad. Additionally Kevin Costner, Tom Berenger and Michael Keaton. I rarely go to the movies aback I don't think, 'Man, I ambition I had that part', you know?
(1989, on if he's gotten use to actuality affluent and famous) It's a bang in the head, but it doesn't add to my ability. It doesn't add to my self-worth. I've consistently acquainted I could buy whatever I wanted, to acquaint you the truth, alike aback I didn't acquire any money. I candidly don't charge an abominable lot to accumulate me happy. What the money can do is agreement the aegis of an abominable lot of added people. I've been able to advice my family. It's abundant to be able to do nice things for the bodies I affliction about. (As far as actuality famous), I bethink that I'm not a rocket scientist. The abandoned affair I acquire to assure from too abounding absorption is my family, which I can do, for the best part. I allocution to the columnist all the time. I'm accessible. It makes things easier. Bodies leave you abandoned more. It is still a bit annoying to see a account of myself and my wife in a abridged or article like that, but big deal. I don't actually go out into absolute accessible situations. I don't apperceive what's activity to appear if I try to go to hockey amateur abutting year and I can't get out of the place. But I still accompany the things that are important to me.
[on Twitter]: Tweeting is like sending out air-conditioned telegrams to your accompany already a week.
[on actuality a adherent of British soccer aggregation Aston Villa]: I fell in adulation with Aston Villa because I anticipation the name articulate like a admirable island off Sardinia.
[on Larry Crowne (2011)]: At the end, Larry Crowne is active in a abominable apartment. He still has a awful job, he can't alike allow to pay for the gas in his big car, and he's activity to academy with no absolute set approaching of what's activity to happen. But he has this amazing new bull attendance in his life, and he can candidly say that the best affair that anytime happened to him was accepting accursed from his job.
[on Larry Crowne (2011)]: We capital to appraise the affair of reinvention - not reinvention by way of fate dictating it, but by your own proactive abode in how you move on to whatever the abutting affiliate is activity to be. It actually began [this way]: I lose my job, I go to college, my abecedary is Julia Roberts. What would happen?
We are aggressive in a exchange in which the affair we ability acquire activity for us is the accurate action adjoin cynicism. That's what Larry Crowne (2011) is about, added than annihilation else.
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Salary
Toy Story 3 (2010) | $15,000,000 |
Angels & Demons (2009) | $50 000 000 |
The Da Vinci Code (2006) | $18,000,000 + profit participation |
Cast Away (2000) | $20,000,000 |
The Green Mile (1999) | $20,000,000 |
Toy Story 2 (1999) | $5,000,000 |
You've Got Mail (1998) | $20,000,000 |
Saving Private Ryan (1998) | $40,000,000+ (gross and profit participations) |
Toy Story (1995) | $50,000 |
Forrest Gump (1994) | $70,000,000 (gross and profit participations) |
The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990) | $5,000,000 |
The 'burbs (1989) | $3,500,000 |
Punchline (1988) | $5,000,000 |
Big (1988) | $1,750,000 |
Splash (1984) | $70,000 |
He Knows You're Alone (1980) | $800 |
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