The only thing I can do is wipe my arse, brush my teeth, turn up and do the best work I can.
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.
More Tom Hardy Quotes
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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 liked you better when you were drunk .
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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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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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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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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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There’s always a certain pride in getting the job done properly.
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Whatever character you play, remember they are always doing something they are not just talking.
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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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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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I hate publicists and publicity. But I love the people.
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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 doesn’t matter who you are. What matters is your plan.
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I’m an armchair psychologist, I suppose, and I like to kind of sit around and guess and pretend I know what’s going on.
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Online dating is cool but I think Myspace and Facebook is a little bit off key.
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The lack of carbohydrates can make you a little crazy.
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I guess if I had fifty million dollars I could spend more time at home.
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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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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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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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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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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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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 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.
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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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Vanity 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.
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