# actor/actress signature movie behaviors (or the Tom Hanks peeing thread) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 20, 2010, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-actress-signature-movie-behaviors-or-the-tom-hanks-peeing-thread/543825 "2010-06-20T00:51:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![crypto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@crypto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crypto)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2010, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-actress-signature-movie-behaviors-or-the-tom-hanks-peeing-thread/543825/1 "2010-06-20T00:51:08Z")
I was wondering if anyone else has noticed certain behaviors that some actors seem to perform in each movie they are in. I have two off the top of my head. **Tom Cruise** - It always seems that Tommy has to get the “Tom Cruise” sprint/run into his films. These are just off the top of my head, so I’m sure there are more. Feel free to add to the list of films Tom Cruise runs in. 1. All The Right Moves 2. Vanilla Sky 3. Mission Impossible 4. The Firm **Tom Hanks** - Tom Hanks seems to urinate on film as much as possible. Again, off the top of my head. 1. Cast Away 2. Apollo 13 3. The Green Mile 4. A League of Their Own (one of the great on-screen urinations of all time) 5. Big 6. Forrest Gump First, if you can think of any other movies to add to the lists above, please do. Also, can you think of any other actors/actresses that have these signature behaviors? ---
**Author:** ![hellpaso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ecae2f/32.png) [@hellpaso](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hellpaso)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2010, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-actress-signature-movie-behaviors-or-the-tom-hanks-peeing-thread/543825/2 "2010-06-20T03:22:47Z")
Will Ferrell and his shirtless/nearly naked scenes. Too many to count. As well as the extremely violent scenes favored by Mel Gibson and Viggo Mortensen. ---
**Author:** ![Peanut7316](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8baadc/32.png) [@Peanut7316](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peanut7316)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2010, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-actress-signature-movie-behaviors-or-the-tom-hanks-peeing-thread/543825/3 "2010-06-20T06:00:37Z")
I know this is a little off with a director here, but Tarantino has his signature “Foot fetish” scene and the “Looking up from the trunk” scene in most of his movies. ---
**Author:** ![crypto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@crypto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crypto)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2010, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-actress-signature-movie-behaviors-or-the-tom-hanks-peeing-thread/543825/4 "2010-06-20T06:27:54Z")
> [@Peanut7316](#): > > I know this is a little off with a director here, but Tarantino has his signature “Foot fetish” scene and the “Looking up from the trunk” scene in most of his movies. The director angle is just fine. And I’m sure directors have their own unique calling cards, like Hitchcock appearing as a cameo in many of his movies. So pop those in if you have them! ---
**Author:** ![MsChilePepper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@MsChilePepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsChilePepper)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2010, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-actress-signature-movie-behaviors-or-the-tom-hanks-peeing-thread/543825/5 "2010-06-20T06:37:48Z")
Val Kilmer often twirls small objects, like coins or pens, between his fingers. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2010, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-actress-signature-movie-behaviors-or-the-tom-hanks-peeing-thread/543825/6 "2010-06-20T06:45:54Z")
Cameron Diaz shakes her butt for the camera in all her movies. It’s in her contract. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2010, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-actress-signature-movie-behaviors-or-the-tom-hanks-peeing-thread/543825/7 "2010-06-20T06:50:06Z")
James Cameron’s crushing feet or tank treads. Sam Raimi’s chainsaws, “The Classic” and wild POV shots. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2010, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-actress-signature-movie-behaviors-or-the-tom-hanks-peeing-thread/543825/8 "2010-06-20T13:11:36Z")
John Cusack gets caught standing in the rain in a lot of his movies: 1. High Fidelity 2. 1408 3. The Sure Thing 4. Identity ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2010, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-actress-signature-movie-behaviors-or-the-tom-hanks-peeing-thread/543825/9 "2010-06-20T13:52:54Z")
> [@spoke-](#): > > John Cusack gets caught standing in the rain in a lot of his movies: > > 1. High Fidelity > 2. 1408 > 3. The Sure Thing > 4. Identity Looks like somebody else noticed the John-Cusack-in-the-rain thing, and put together a [YouTube compilation](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6d4XOWvmJc&feature=related). They also caught a couple more examples that I forgot: 1. Say Anything 2. Being John Malkovich ---
**Author:** ![obfusciatrist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4af34b/32.png) [@obfusciatrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/obfusciatrist)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2010, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-actress-signature-movie-behaviors-or-the-tom-hanks-peeing-thread/543825/10 "2010-06-20T14:14:11Z")
Bruce Willis sometimes seems to only do a movie if it has a number in the title: The First Deadly Sin Loaded Weapon 1 Die Hard 2 Four Rooms The Fifth Element The Sixth Sense Lucky Number Slevin (a play on words so not quite) The Whole Nine Yards The Whole Ten Yards Twelve Monkeys Oceans Twelve 16 Blocks “That '70s Show” guest appearance Catch .44 (in production now) George Clooney used to have this move in this early movies where you’d turn his head to look at something and would dip it in the process. Can’t really describe it but my wife got annoyed at me when I pointed it out because then she always saw it. But apparently somebody pointed it out to him because he seems to have stopped. ---
**Author:** ![Serenata67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/serenata67/32/10646_2.png) [@Serenata67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Serenata67)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2010, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-actress-signature-movie-behaviors-or-the-tom-hanks-peeing-thread/543825/11 "2010-06-20T15:40:49Z")
M. Night Shyamalan usually has a one-or-two line cameo in each of his films (not sure about the upcoming one, though) a la Hitchcock. And Kevin Smith always has Ben Affleck… (and the thing is, I’m only slightly kidding…) ---
**Author:** ![cactus\_waltz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@cactus\_waltz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cactus_waltz)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2010, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-actress-signature-movie-behaviors-or-the-tom-hanks-peeing-thread/543825/12 "2010-06-20T16:47:58Z")
[Shia LaBeouf and his no no no-tic](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IXCK1EyP4s&feature=related). ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2010, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-actress-signature-movie-behaviors-or-the-tom-hanks-peeing-thread/543825/13 "2010-06-20T16:54:58Z")
Me and my friends used to make a point to notice Jet Li’s hand shake maneuver. When he is getting beaten in a fight, he takes a pause holds his hand out and shakes it as though shaking off a sting. It is the “Okay, enough screwing around,now you are going to get your ass kicked” It’s pretty common in any kung fu movie, and I know Bruce lee did it a time or two, but it always seemed signature for Jet li. ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2010, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-actress-signature-movie-behaviors-or-the-tom-hanks-peeing-thread/543825/14 "2010-06-20T17:10:03Z")
For example at 1:45 of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6abecTih3Xw&feature=related](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6abecTih3Xw&feature=related) ---
**Author:** ![TV\_time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f17d59/32.png) [@TV\_time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TV_time)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2010, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-actress-signature-movie-behaviors-or-the-tom-hanks-peeing-thread/543825/15 "2010-06-20T17:53:56Z")
> [@MsChilePepper](#): > > Val Kilmer often twirls small objects, like coins or pens, between his fingers. In Wyatt Earp (or was it Tombstone?) when he played Doc Holiday he twirled that little tin cup. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2010, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-actress-signature-movie-behaviors-or-the-tom-hanks-peeing-thread/543825/16 "2010-06-20T18:03:50Z")
Robin Williams trying on different hats in a mirror while adopting comical voices. A Barbra Streisand impression is always included. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2010, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-actress-signature-movie-behaviors-or-the-tom-hanks-peeing-thread/543825/17 "2010-06-20T18:08:24Z")
John Landis and his [See you next Wednesday](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/See_You_Next_Wednesday) stuff. ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2010, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-actress-signature-movie-behaviors-or-the-tom-hanks-peeing-thread/543825/18 "2010-06-20T18:10:27Z")
Jean Claude van Damme always does the splits. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2010, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-actress-signature-movie-behaviors-or-the-tom-hanks-peeing-thread/543825/19 "2010-06-20T18:19:58Z")
Will Smith seems to say “oh, hell no!” a lot, or maybe it just seems like he does. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2010, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-actress-signature-movie-behaviors-or-the-tom-hanks-peeing-thread/543825/20 "2010-06-20T18:29:49Z")
Sparks fly through the air around or near Michael J. Fox in: 1. Doc Hollywood 2. Back to the Future 3. Mars Attacks 4. Casualties of War and I think also in _The Frighteners_, but I’m not sure about that one. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-actress-signature-movie-behaviors-or-the-tom-hanks-peeing-thread/543825.md?page=2)