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 HARDYI’m an armchair psychologist, I suppose, and I like to kind of sit around and guess and pretend I know what’s going on.
More Tom Hardy Quotes
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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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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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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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I set myself that decision, otherwise I’m driving an opinion at you, and I think that would be treating you like you’re an idiot. I don’t want to force-feed you my opinion.
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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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It doesn’t matter who you are. What matters is your plan.
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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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I love dogs. Like, A LOT. They’re my favorite animal. Ever.
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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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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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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 liked you better when you were drunk .
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Online dating is cool but I think Myspace and Facebook is a little bit off key.
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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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