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 HARDY
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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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.
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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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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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I guess if I had fifty million dollars I could spend more time at home.
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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’m from a nice, suburban, middle-class family, but my tattoos remind me where I’ve been.
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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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Love is doing something you don’t want to do for someone you don’t particularly like at that moment.
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I’m just getting settled as a responsible man – but if you split the elephant into little mouthfuls it will be fine.
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I had a huge imagination. My granddad says I was a bit of a Walter Mitty character.
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The lack of carbohydrates can make you a little crazy.
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Whatever character you play, remember they are always doing something they are not just talking.
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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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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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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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A lot of people say I seem masculine, but I don’t feel it. I feel intrinsically feminine. I’d love to be one of the boys but I always felt a bit on the outside. Maybe my masculine qualities come from overcompensating because I’m not one of the boys.
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