I’m just getting settled as a responsible man – but if you split the elephant into little mouthfuls it will be fine.
TOM HARDYI’m just getting settled as a responsible man – but if you split the elephant into little mouthfuls it will be fine.
TOM HARDYIf 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.
TOM HARDYI had a huge imagination. My granddad says I was a bit of a Walter Mitty character.
TOM HARDYThere’s always a certain pride in getting the job done properly.
TOM HARDYJu 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 HARDYI guess if I had fifty million dollars I could spend more time at home.
TOM HARDYI love people. People are lovely creatures. I’m one myself, so I love to see people happy.
TOM HARDYIt’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.
TOM HARDYThere’s an abundance of exposure when you start working in American films. Inevitably you become a brand and that has to be controlled.
TOM HARDYI think it’s important that you always transform if you can. That’s what I was trained to do. You try and hide yourself as much as you can – that’s the key to longevity.
TOM HARDYI 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 HARDYBeing 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.
TOM HARDYIf 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!
TOM HARDYThe only thing I can do is wipe my arse, brush my teeth, turn up and do the best work I can.
TOM HARDYThe 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.
TOM HARDYAnd 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?
TOM HARDY