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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.

Tom Hardy

My job is to show and tell. If I get better at showing and telling then presumably I get hired more.
TOM HARDY

Better Hire Job Myself
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.
TOM HARDY

Compensation Feminine Oneself People Quality
I have a very busy head. I have inside voices that I have learned to contain.
TOM HARDY

Head Learning Myself Voice
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 HARDY

Best Flaws Growth Human Live Mistake Old Possible Way
There’s always a certain pride in getting the job done properly.
TOM HARDY

Job Perfection Pride
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.
TOM HARDY

People Performance Time Yourself
I hate publicists and publicity. But I love the people.
TOM HARDY

Hate Love Myself People Public
The only thing I can do is wipe my arse, brush my teeth, turn up and do the best work I can.
TOM HARDY

Best Myself Wipe Work
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.
TOM HARDY

Bone Connection Hollywood Myself
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.
TOM HARDY

Doctor Job Kind Myself
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.
TOM HARDY

Decision Drive Force Myself Opinion Treat
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!
TOM HARDY

Compare Myself
I had a huge imagination. My granddad says I was a bit of a Walter Mitty character.
TOM HARDY

Character Father Imagination Myself
Whatever character you play, remember they are always doing something they are not just talking.
TOM HARDY

Character Play Remember Talk Yourself
You don’t step on stage to eat; you go there to be eaten.
TOM HARDY

Deep Eat Stage Yourself
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.
TOM HARDY

Date Health Myself People Social Media Thinking

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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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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