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.
TOM HARDYLove is doing something you don’t want to do for someone you don’t particularly like at that moment.
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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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Whatever character you play, remember they are always doing something they are not just talking.
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I liked you better when you were drunk .
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I think online dating is a way of procuring people. Like Facebook and Myspace, it’s the way that people connect now and procure small children and sometimes dodgy relationships. I don’t think it’s very healthy.
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I have to make my bones with Hollywood to get in. And when I do maybe I’ll metamorphose from Mr. Muscles or whatever it is I am now and become an irascible tosser.
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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 hate publicists and publicity. But I love the people.
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Being an only child, I didn’t have any other family but my mom and dad really, since the rest of my family lived quite far away from London.
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David Mamet we all know is a great screenplay writer and playwright and a great director. If you like him, you like him. If you hate him, you really hate him. He’s someone who’s into controversy, you know what I mean? That’s David Mamet.
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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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It’s much less daunting once you’ve put your foot on the road to it. I’m a notorious couch potato and I don’t like exercise. Half an hour of physical exercise, like jogging or fast walking a day is a start.
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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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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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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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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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