I’m just getting settled as a responsible man – but if you split the elephant into little mouthfuls it will be fine.
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!
More Tom Hardy Quotes
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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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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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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 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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It doesn’t matter who you are. What matters is your plan.
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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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You don’t step on stage to eat; you go there to be eaten.
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The lack of carbohydrates can make you a little crazy.
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I hate publicists and publicity. But I love the people.
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I love dogs. Like, A LOT. They’re my favorite animal. Ever.
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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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I love people. People are lovely creatures. I’m one myself, so I love to see people happy.
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I have a very busy head. I have inside voices that I have learned to contain.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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Whatever character you play, remember they are always doing something they are not just talking.
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I liked you better when you were drunk .
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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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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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