Ju jitsu is very Buddhist. All that we fear we hold close to ourselves to survive. So if you’re drowning and you see a corpse floating by, hang on to it because it will rescue you.
TOM HARDYVanity is normal in performers. Does it bother other people? All the time. But nine times out of 10, that says more about them than you.
More Tom Hardy Quotes
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The only thing I can do is wipe my arse, brush my teeth, turn up and do the best work I can.
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If you look round Hollywood there’s no end of white smiles and six packs. Long lines of beautiful people lining up to be incredible on film.
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I’m into parlor dramas. I’m into theatre. I’m trained for the stage. I trained to do Chekhov and Shakespeare, I was trained for the stage.
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I guess if I had fifty million dollars I could spend more time at home.
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I have a very busy head. I have inside voices that I have learned to contain.
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You don’t step on stage to eat; you go there to be eaten.
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The lack of carbohydrates can make you a little crazy.
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My job is to show and tell. If I get better at showing and telling then presumably I get hired more.
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The Long Red Road is a story about alcoholism and dysfunction and tragic tale of a man who’s trying to drink himself to death on an Indian reservation in Dakota. It was written for me, so it’s something I would love to do.
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There’s an abundance of exposure when you start working in American films. Inevitably you become a brand and that has to be controlled.
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If I am duly compared to Marlon Brando at all, well, I can only think of The Teahouse of the ‘Shanghai Noon,’ that they’re comparing me to that!
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I like to be other people, not me. And when you’re on the red carpet, it’s like, ‘Here’s Tom Hardy.’ I don’t want to be me. That’s why I play other people.
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We’re all flawed human beings and we all have a cauldron of psychosis which we have to unravel as we grow older and find the way we fit in to live our lives as best as possible.
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I had no immediate knowledge of the world of Batman at all. I’m quite incubated. I just keep myself to myself and my dog.
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Whatever character you play, remember they are always doing something they are not just talking.
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