We’re all flawed human beings and we all have a cauldron of psychosis which we have to unravel as we grow older and find the way we fit in to live our lives as best as possible.
TOM HARDYI’m going to fail to hit the mark I’ve put up before me because it’s not possible to hit it. I want to be the best at what I do so I’ve got to get over myself already because that’s never going to happen. I ain’t ever going to be God.
More Tom Hardy Quotes
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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 had a huge imagination. My granddad says I was a bit of a Walter Mitty character.
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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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Whatever character you play, remember they are always doing something they are not just talking.
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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 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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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 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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I hate publicists and publicity. But I love the people.
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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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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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I had no immediate knowledge of the world of Batman at all. I’m quite incubated. I just keep myself to myself and my dog.
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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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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 going to fail to hit the mark I’ve put up before me because it’s not possible to hit it. I want to be the best at what I do so I’ve got to get over myself already because that’s never going to happen. I ain’t ever going to be God.
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It doesn’t matter who you are. What matters is your plan.
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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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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 liked you better when you were drunk .
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