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.
TOM HARDYDavid 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.
More Tom Hardy Quotes
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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’m not a big guy anyway. I’m only, what, 150 pounds? I was 190 for ‘Batman,’ 179 for ‘Warrior.’ Films make you look big.
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Maybe it’s a little ambitious of me to presume that no matter how big the film is, that I can always go down to the shop to buy a pint of milk.
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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 have a very busy head. I have inside voices that I have learned to contain.
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Whatever character you play, remember they are always doing something they are not just talking.
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You don’t step on stage to eat; you go there to be eaten.
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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 just getting settled as a responsible man – but if you split the elephant into little mouthfuls it will be fine.
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And I like people. I like to know what you’re really up to. I’m a bit of a nosey busy body. Why do they do the things they do? Why are they prepared to do the things they do to get what they want? When? Where? Who?
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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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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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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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It doesn’t matter who you are. What matters is your plan.
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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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