# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![Tanbarkie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a698b9/32.png) [@Tanbarkie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tanbarkie)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2010, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-actress-signature-movie-behaviors-or-the-tom-hanks-peeing-thread/543825/21 "2010-06-20T18:39:42Z")
> [@Wile\_E](#): > > Will Smith seems to say “oh, hell no!” a lot, or maybe it just seems like he does. Don’t you mean, “Aw, _heyyyllllll_ naww!” ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2010, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-actress-signature-movie-behaviors-or-the-tom-hanks-peeing-thread/543825/22 "2010-06-20T23:32:44Z")
_Aw, maynnnn_, where’d you get the keyboard with built-in Ebonics? ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-actress-signature-movie-behaviors-or-the-tom-hanks-peeing-thread/543825/23 "2010-06-21T04:49:09Z")
> [@The\_Second\_Stone](#): > > Cameron Diaz shakes her butt for the camera in all her movies. … Christopher Walken always tries to too. CMC fnord! ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-actress-signature-movie-behaviors-or-the-tom-hanks-peeing-thread/543825/24 "2010-06-21T04:54:33Z")
Michelle Rodriguez always scowls at some point. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-actress-signature-movie-behaviors-or-the-tom-hanks-peeing-thread/543825/25 "2010-06-21T05:20:49Z")
Am I the first person to mention that Keanu Reeves says “whoa” in a lot of his movies? ---
**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 21, 2010, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-actress-signature-movie-behaviors-or-the-tom-hanks-peeing-thread/543825/26 "2010-06-21T06:13:06Z")
> [@Koxinga](#): > > Michelle Rodriguez always scowls at some point. When does she NOT scowl? ---
**Author:** ![GSV\_Consolation\_of\_Dreams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f1d935/32.png) [@GSV\_Consolation\_of\_Dreams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GSV_Consolation_of_Dreams)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-actress-signature-movie-behaviors-or-the-tom-hanks-peeing-thread/543825/27 "2010-06-21T07:25:21Z")
Harrison Ford and his “finger of doom”. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-actress-signature-movie-behaviors-or-the-tom-hanks-peeing-thread/543825/28 "2010-06-21T09:08:04Z")
> [@obfusciatrist](#): > > 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. Yeah, the Clooney Bobblehead; I used to notice that too. I think Soderberg beat it out of him - the first time I saw him move his head properly was in **Out of Sight** , and by **Ocean’s 11** it was completely gone. ---
**Author:** ![kidneyfailure](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9f8e36/32.png) [@kidneyfailure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidneyfailure)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 9:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-actress-signature-movie-behaviors-or-the-tom-hanks-peeing-thread/543825/29 "2010-06-21T09:53:15Z")
Michael Douglas always plays businessmen or lawyers or cops or rich guys of some kind. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 10:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-actress-signature-movie-behaviors-or-the-tom-hanks-peeing-thread/543825/30 "2010-06-21T10:05:13Z")
As do most male movie stars over a certain age. ---
**Author:** ![kidneyfailure](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9f8e36/32.png) [@kidneyfailure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidneyfailure)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 10:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-actress-signature-movie-behaviors-or-the-tom-hanks-peeing-thread/543825/31 "2010-06-21T10:14:22Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > As do most male movie stars over a certain age. Yeah, but he seems to have practically made a career of it. Just off the top of my head (in no particular order): _Wallstreet_: businessman _Black Rain_: cop _Basic Instict_: cop (I think) _War of the Roses_: lawyer _Fatal Attraction_: lawyer _Disclosure_: businessman _Streets of SF_: cop _A Perfect Murder_: rich guy Can you think of anyone else who, for practically their whole career, has played roles like that? Others may do so when they retire from being action stars, but that’s all he’s been doing, it seems. ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-actress-signature-movie-behaviors-or-the-tom-hanks-peeing-thread/543825/32 "2010-06-21T10:24:09Z")
but that’s a casting (or typecasting) issue, not a signature movie “behavior.” ---
**Author:** ![kidneyfailure](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9f8e36/32.png) [@kidneyfailure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidneyfailure)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-actress-signature-movie-behaviors-or-the-tom-hanks-peeing-thread/543825/33 "2010-06-21T10:36:14Z")
Hmmm…ok ETA: Ok, I see: an actual physical behavior. Hmmm, let me see what I can find. ---
**Author:** ![shijinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-actress-signature-movie-behaviors-or-the-tom-hanks-peeing-thread/543825/34 "2010-06-21T10:45:07Z")
Michael Biehn dies alot - Terminator, the Abyss, Aliens, the Rock, Tombstone, Grindhouse etc. checking Wiki, it also says that “In every James Cameron movie Michael appears in, his character is bitten on the hand by another character.” i don’t recall any of that, except for Aliens where Newt bit him, anyone know? ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-actress-signature-movie-behaviors-or-the-tom-hanks-peeing-thread/543825/35 "2010-06-21T10:47:51Z")
> [@shijinn](#): > > Michael Biehn dies alot - > > Terminator, the Abyss, Aliens, the Rock, Tombstone, Grindhouse etc. checking Wiki, it also says that “In every James Cameron movie Michael appears in, his character is bitten on the hand by another character.” i don’t recall any of that, except for Aliens where Newt bit him, anyone know? Sarah Connor bit him on the hand when trying to escape from him in Terminator. ---
**Author:** ![Superhal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Superhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superhal)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-actress-signature-movie-behaviors-or-the-tom-hanks-peeing-thread/543825/36 "2010-06-21T12:25:10Z")
There’s a video somewhere of how Michael Ironside keeps getting his arm amputated. The link was broken at imdb when I tried to get there. My friend doesn’t like Tom Cruise because he’s always the “young hotshot.” The only exception I think is Born on the 4th of July. Denzel Washington seems to love the “heroic death” recently. Keanu Reeves tends to be cast as the “expert who has no clue what’s _really_going on”: Matrix, Johnny Mnemonic, Chain Reaction: Hacker/Computer expert Point Break: FBI/Quarterback Speed: Bomb Expert (at least in this one he admitted he was too dumb) The Lake House: Architect Albeit due to many sequels, I think Neve Campbell single-handedly created the trope about brunettes being the only one to survive horror movies. Harrison Ford should have the right cross renamed in his honor. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-actress-signature-movie-behaviors-or-the-tom-hanks-peeing-thread/543825/37 "2010-06-21T12:33:47Z")
> [@Stink Fish Pot](#): > > 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. A lesser known calling card of Hitchcock is the staircase scene: a scene – often a pivotal one of the movie – that’s shot on a staircase. Some include (spoilers): 1. **The 39 Steps** – Pamela learns the Hannay is telling the truth when she’s standing at the top of a staircase. 2. **Suspicion** – the “poisoned (?) glass of milk” scene involves carrying it up a flight of stairs. 3. **Shadow of a Doubt** – On murder attempt by sawing through a stair; later, the scene where Uncle Charlie suddenly decides to leave. 4. **Notorious** – the final scene. 5. **Strangers on a Train** – When Guy tries to hold up his part of the bargain. 6. **Vertigo** – the bell tower. 7. **Psycho** – the second murder 8. **Frenzy** – the slow tracking shot when the murder is being committed. 9. **Family Plot** – the final scene. There are others. When Truffaut pointed this out to Hitchcock, he said, “Stairs are very photogenic.” ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-actress-signature-movie-behaviors-or-the-tom-hanks-peeing-thread/543825/38 "2010-06-21T12:46:21Z")
Jennifer Connelly likes to stand on the end of a [pier](http://www.head-fi.org/forum/thread/423593/jennifer-connelly-on-a-pier) and stare out at the sea. ---
**Author:** ![Sparky812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Sparky812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky812)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-actress-signature-movie-behaviors-or-the-tom-hanks-peeing-thread/543825/39 "2010-06-21T12:55:53Z")
> [@kidneyfailure](#): > > Yeah, but he seems to have practically made a career of it. Just off the top of my head (in no particular order): > > _Wallstreet_: businessman > > _Black Rain_: cop > > _Basic Instict_: cop (I think) > > _War of the Roses_: lawyer > > _Fatal Attraction_: lawyer > > _Disclosure_: businessman > > _Streets of SF_: cop > > _A Perfect Murder_: rich guy > > Can you think of anyone else who, for practically their whole career, has played roles like that? Others may do so when they retire from being action stars, but that’s all he’s been doing, it seems. I don’t see a trend here. Especially, if you don’t include his other roles such as Romancing the Stone/Jewel of the Nile, Falling Down, Wonder Boys, The American President, The Ghost and the Darkness, Coma, etc.. Now if you noticed he’s always an arrogant, know-it-all, womanizing prick. That, I can see! ---
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-actress-signature-movie-behaviors-or-the-tom-hanks-peeing-thread/543825/40 "2010-06-21T13:08:51Z")
Kevin Costner always speaks in an irritating squeaky voice, and always in an American accent even if he’s playing an Englishman in the Middle Ages. Oh sorry thats not what you meant was it… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-actress-signature-movie-behaviors-or-the-tom-hanks-peeing-thread/543825.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-actress-signature-movie-behaviors-or-the-tom-hanks-peeing-thread/543825.md?page=3)