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05-10-2008, 03:57 AM
Here's a collection of quotes from one of my all-time favourite actors, Tom Hanks. Go through the quiz and see how many you can get correct. No cheating now! Answers will be posted in a week. Should I give away 100 credits as the prize? :eek:
Tom Hank's Short Introduction:
After a series of early-1980’s bit parts in television shows like Happy Days, and Family Ties, and starring in his own sitcom Bosom Buddies, Tom Hanks ‘Splash-ed’ onto the big screen in 1984. This began a stellar film career for Mr. Hanks, as he created many memorable characterizations, including his back-to-back Oscar-winning performances in Philadelphia and Forrest Gump. Can you name the Tom Hanks films that are featured in this Quotes Quiz?
Easy Quotes (1 point)
(1) “My momma always said, "Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get."”
(2) "Houston, we have a problem.”
(3) “Are you crying? There’s no crying! There’s no crying in baseball!”
(4) “I have less than six months to live. The Waponis believe they need a human sacrifice or their island is going to sink into the ocean. They have this mineral your father wants so he hired me to leap into their volcano.”
(5) “I don't understand. All my life I've been waiting for someone and when I find her, she's a fish.”
(6) "E-mail is far more convenient than the telephone, as far as I'm concerned. I would throw my phone away if I could get away with it."
(7) "From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle; we just decided to go."
(8) "I don't gripe to *you*, Reiben. I'm a captain. There's a chain of command. Gripes go up, not down. Always up. You gripe to me, I gripe to my superior officer, so on, so on, and so on. I don't gripe to you. I don't gripe in front of you. You should know that as a Ranger."
(9) "We live and we die by the clock, that's all we have. "
Harder Quotes (2 points)
(10) “I know what I have to do now, I’ve got to keep breathing because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring?”
(11) “I am not going to New York to meet some woman who could be a crazy, sick lunatic! Didn't you see Fatal Attraction?”
(12) "Any questions? Don't ask. I'm tired of talking to you and I want to sleep."
(13) "Look out for the tractor, Mike. Michael... look out for the tractor. You're coming up now. Watch out for the tractor. Watch out for the tractor! Watch out for the tractor!"
(14) "Well when I think of home, I... I think of something specific. I think of my, my hammock in the backyard or my wife pruning the rosebushes in a pair of my old work gloves."
(15) "THIS is why we don't pick up children!"
(16) "What do you call a thousand lawyers chained together at the bottom of the ocean? "
(17) "Men under strain can snap. Hurt themselves. Hurt others. That's why our job is talking, not yelling. You'll do better to think of this place like an intensive care ward in a hospital."
(18) “Seeing is believing, but sometimes the most real things in the world are the things we can't see."
Hardest Quotes (3 points)
(19) “May you live as long as you want and never want as long as you live.”
(20) “I just know that every man I kill, the farther away from home I feel.”
(21) "Is that, uh... your profession or... your pleasure?"
(22) "Madam, we must have waffles! We must all have waffles forthwith! We must all think, and we must all have waffles, and think each and every one of us to the very best of his ability... "
(23) "General, you are a Buddhist. Perhaps there is some "middle way" to solve this problem?"
(24) "I've done some things in my life I'm not proud of, but this is the first time I've ever felt in real danger of hell."
(25) ""The Statue of Liberty is kaput" - that's disconcerting."
P.S.: I got 42 points. :cool:
Tom Hank's Short Introduction:
After a series of early-1980’s bit parts in television shows like Happy Days, and Family Ties, and starring in his own sitcom Bosom Buddies, Tom Hanks ‘Splash-ed’ onto the big screen in 1984. This began a stellar film career for Mr. Hanks, as he created many memorable characterizations, including his back-to-back Oscar-winning performances in Philadelphia and Forrest Gump. Can you name the Tom Hanks films that are featured in this Quotes Quiz?
Easy Quotes (1 point)
(1) “My momma always said, "Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get."”
(2) "Houston, we have a problem.”
(3) “Are you crying? There’s no crying! There’s no crying in baseball!”
(4) “I have less than six months to live. The Waponis believe they need a human sacrifice or their island is going to sink into the ocean. They have this mineral your father wants so he hired me to leap into their volcano.”
(5) “I don't understand. All my life I've been waiting for someone and when I find her, she's a fish.”
(6) "E-mail is far more convenient than the telephone, as far as I'm concerned. I would throw my phone away if I could get away with it."
(7) "From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle; we just decided to go."
(8) "I don't gripe to *you*, Reiben. I'm a captain. There's a chain of command. Gripes go up, not down. Always up. You gripe to me, I gripe to my superior officer, so on, so on, and so on. I don't gripe to you. I don't gripe in front of you. You should know that as a Ranger."
(9) "We live and we die by the clock, that's all we have. "
Harder Quotes (2 points)
(10) “I know what I have to do now, I’ve got to keep breathing because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring?”
(11) “I am not going to New York to meet some woman who could be a crazy, sick lunatic! Didn't you see Fatal Attraction?”
(12) "Any questions? Don't ask. I'm tired of talking to you and I want to sleep."
(13) "Look out for the tractor, Mike. Michael... look out for the tractor. You're coming up now. Watch out for the tractor. Watch out for the tractor! Watch out for the tractor!"
(14) "Well when I think of home, I... I think of something specific. I think of my, my hammock in the backyard or my wife pruning the rosebushes in a pair of my old work gloves."
(15) "THIS is why we don't pick up children!"
(16) "What do you call a thousand lawyers chained together at the bottom of the ocean? "
(17) "Men under strain can snap. Hurt themselves. Hurt others. That's why our job is talking, not yelling. You'll do better to think of this place like an intensive care ward in a hospital."
(18) “Seeing is believing, but sometimes the most real things in the world are the things we can't see."
Hardest Quotes (3 points)
(19) “May you live as long as you want and never want as long as you live.”
(20) “I just know that every man I kill, the farther away from home I feel.”
(21) "Is that, uh... your profession or... your pleasure?"
(22) "Madam, we must have waffles! We must all have waffles forthwith! We must all think, and we must all have waffles, and think each and every one of us to the very best of his ability... "
(23) "General, you are a Buddhist. Perhaps there is some "middle way" to solve this problem?"
(24) "I've done some things in my life I'm not proud of, but this is the first time I've ever felt in real danger of hell."
(25) ""The Statue of Liberty is kaput" - that's disconcerting."
P.S.: I got 42 points. :cool: