Tom Hanks Has Some Things to Say About Marriage — and They're So Good

Tom also told People that since life is hard, it's important that your marriage not be. "They say it must be hard work. No it's not. Every now and again you know, you gotta get over some stuff but life is one damn thing after another and its actually more pleasant to be able to go home with someone you like to spend time with in order to get with it."

Tom shared this but of wisdom with Extra in 2015, "I think that anybody that gets married is partaking in an act of bravery."

Tom told Piers Morgan in 2013 interview, "I must say that when I met Rita, I thought, 'oh, this is what it’s supposed to be like when you are married to someone. It’s supposed to be this carefree and easy and, you know, oddly enough, weighty.'"

"No one should get married before they're 30," he told People. This bit of advice likely comes from personal experience. Tom married his college sweetheart, Samantha Lewes, when he was 21. Hanks and Lewes divorced nine years and two kids later. Tom married Rita in 1988, and has two children with her.