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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.

Tom Hardy

Love is doing something you don’t want to do for someone you don’t particularly like at that moment.
TOM HARDY

Action Love Moments Yourself
I hate publicists and publicity. But I love the people.
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Hate Love Myself People Public
You don’t step on stage to eat; you go there to be eaten.
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Deep Eat Stage Yourself
There’s always a certain pride in getting the job done properly.
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Job Perfection Pride
I love people. People are lovely creatures. I’m one myself, so I love to see people happy.
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Creature Happiness Love Myself People Yourself
Whatever character you play, remember they are always doing something they are not just talking.
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Character Play Remember Talk Yourself
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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Drama Myself Stage Training
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.
TOM HARDY

Director Greatness Myself Play Writing
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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Alcohol Death Love Myself Story Tragedy
I liked you better when you were drunk .
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Alcohol Better Drunk Myself
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.
TOM HARDY

Hide Important Key Training Transformation Yourself
I had a huge imagination. My granddad says I was a bit of a Walter Mitty character.
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Character Father Imagination Myself
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
I’m just getting settled as a responsible man – but if you split the elephant into little mouthfuls it will be fine.
TOM HARDY

Man Responsible Yourself
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
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.
TOM HARDY

Appearance Body Yourself
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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Compare Myself
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?
TOM HARDY

Body Curiosity Myself People Preparation
There’s an abundance of exposure when you start working in American films. Inevitably you become a brand and that has to be controlled.
TOM HARDY

Abundance Brand Control Exposure Start Work Yourself
I love dogs. Like, A LOT. They’re my favorite animal. Ever.
TOM HARDY

Animal Love Myself
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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Bone Connection Hollywood Myself
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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Buddhism Fear Hold Rescue Survival Yourself
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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Doctor Job Kind Myself
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.
TOM HARDY

Failure God Hit Mark Myself Possible
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

Imitation Myself People Play Yourself
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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Ambitious Big Milk Myself Shop
I’m from a nice, suburban, middle-class family, but my tattoos remind me where I’ve been.
TOM HARDY

Family Myself Place Tattoo

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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