Tom Hanks is fantastic - he is one of my dad's good friends, and he's very warm and funny.

After seeing 'Big,' I wanted an elevator that opened directly into my apartment, just like Tom Hanks did.

Several of the actors I've had the good fortune of working with stand out in my mind as 'ultimate'. I guess the obvious would be Tom Hanks, because he really is as fun and as genuine as he comes across in his films and interviews.

It's nice to finally get scripts offered to me that aren't the ones Tom Hanks wipes his butt with.

When Tom Hanks is in a film, you know it's going to be good.

I played in 'From the Earth to the Moon,' working with Tom Hanks. He is a great guy, very smart.

Tom Hanks, who starred in 'The Da Vinci Code,' turns out to be related to a number of the historic characters that feature in 'The Da Vinci Code,' including William the Conqueror and Shakespeare.

I don't really know a lot of famous people. I've met a lot of famous people. If I ran into Tom Hanks today, I would have to remind him who I was and he would then remember me. But he wouldn't come up to me and say, 'Hi Dave!'

There are a lot of actors that I really love to watch, actors who I have fun watching - I think Johnny Depp is phenomenal. But I wouldn't want that career as much as I'd like a career like Tom Hanks - he kind of represents the everyman.

Tom Hanks knows the name of all the episodes.

Seriously, show me a person who's not into Tom Hanks, and I'll show you a person who is anti-happiness.

To do a movie with someone like Tom Hanks that when you tell your dad, your dad knows who Tom Hanks is - it feels like you're finally giving back to your parents. It's like you've actually done something that they can recognize, and there's something in me that makes them super proud.

Tom Hanks has built his career playing ordinary men.

Well, who wouldn't want to work with Tom Hanks?

In America, celebrities who go to see your show will come backstage and introduce themselves. Meeting Annette Bening and Ethan Hawke that way was amazing, but when Tom Hanks came, it was really special - I've loved him since I first saw him in 'Big!'

In this business, you have a hierarchy of stars. Russell Crowe, Tom Hanks - you name 'em, they can play any part they want. Guys like me who are somewhere down in the middle of the pack, that's a different story. I can do things in the theater that I can't do anyplace else.

I don't really have a lot of fun playing just straight good guys. It's not my thing. It's like Tom Hanks territory.

I did get Tom Hanks to say, Life is just a box of chocolates.

Truth is, we offered it to Tom Hanks, which pretty much every movie in America does, but Tom passed. Billy Bob said that Hanks recently called and said he's voting for all of us for Oscars, he loved the film.

I met two of my movie heroes. I met Tom Hanks, and I met Steven Spielberg. Oh and Quentin Tarantino.