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.
TOM HARDYI’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.
More Tom Hardy Quotes
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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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I’m from a nice, suburban, middle-class family, but my tattoos remind me where I’ve been.
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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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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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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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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 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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It doesn’t matter who you are. What matters is your plan.
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