However, these lines stand out because of their quotable and thought-provoking nature.

15"I am going home."

Within such a story, such a simple quote can have extraordinary power.

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13"What makes us both Americans?

That’s all that makes us Americans."

He then becomes involved in efforts to set up a prisoner exchange with the Soviets.

Tom Hanks' Viktor looking distraught in The Terminal

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12"Fear, belief, love.

Phenomena that determined the course of our lives.

These forces begin long before we are born and continue after we perish."

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‘Cloud Atlas’ (2012)

A perfect quote for a brilliant sci-fi epic.

10"One thing about trains: it doesn’t matter where they’re going.

What matters is deciding to get on."

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7"I’m sorry, Wilson!"

6"I knew it the very first time I touched her.

It was like coming home… only to no home I’d ever known."

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James B. Donovan (Tom Hanks) sits on the train reading the newspaper in ‘Bridge of Spies’ (2015).

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Halle Berry, Tom Hanks and Hugh Grant as Luisa Rey, Isaach Sachs, and Lloys Hooks standing and talking to each other in Cloud Atlas

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Tom Hanks and Michael Clarke Duncan as Paul and John looking up in The Green Mile (1999)

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Train conductor looking sternly at little boy in The Polar Express.

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Joe Fox and Kathleen Kelly sit together on a park bench in New York in ‘You’ve Got Mail’ (1998)

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Captain John Miller stands in a ruined town wearing his army helmet in ‘Saving Private Ryan’.

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Chuck Noland writing on a rock in Cast Away

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