Tom Hardy Quotes: Insights and Wisdom from a Renowned Actor
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.
The only thing I can do is wipe my arse, brush my teeth, turn up and do the best work I can.
I don’t fight really. I try not to fight, actually. I try not to react. I’m a Buddha floating on a lily pad.
Responsibility has a cost, and there’s no such thing as a free lunch, and you have to accept the responsibility of being a man.
Sometimes it’s better to say nothing than say what’s on your mind.
I’m just a pet dog basically, that’s my role in life. They give me a shout and I come running.
I find crying difficult. It takes a lot for me to cry.
I think anybody who falls in love with somebody they’ve met at work…you know what it’s like, it’s pretty intense and dramatic.
My job is to show and tell. If I get better at showing and telling then presumably I get hired more.
Being an actor is like being in prison. You go, you serve your time…and one day they’re gonna let you out.
I’m from a nice, suburban, middle-class family, but my tattoos remind me where I’ve been.
Being an actor is like being an athlete. You have to keep yourself in shape and concentrate on your craft.
I think it’s important that you always transform if you can. That’s what I was trained to do.
I have a very busy head. I have inside voices that I have learned to contain.
I’m going to fail to hit the mark I’ve put up before me because it’s not possible to hit it. So I always aim for much more than I know I can hit.
I find crying difficult. It takes a long time for me to go. And I won’t know what will send me. I’m quite sentimental. If my son tells me he loves me, that will make me cry.
Fame and stuff like that is all very cool, but at the end of the day, we’re all human beings.
I’m from East Sheen, I went to public school where I learned Latin at the age of nine, and certain expectations were made of me to go to St Paul’s, Oxbridge maybe, and all that kind of thing. And I failed systematically to meet the mark.
I have a responsibility to the worker and the volunteer, both of whom are trying to make ends meet and make a difference in the world.
My father came from an intellectual and studious avenue as opposed to a brawler’s avenue. So I had to go further afield and I brought all kinds of uninvited aggravation onto my head.
What I’ve got here are the good choices and the bad choices. If I make the bad choices then I have to be prepared to face the repercussions and learn from them.
I don’t feel very manly. I don’t feel rugged and strong and capable in real life, not how I imagine a man ought to be.
If I have any unfulfilled ambitions, they lie in the music. I’d love to play in a band.
As actors, we can hide behind characters. My characters are complete escapism from who I am, what I am. I’m not really that interesting.
I don’t feel very manly. I don’t feel rugged and strong and capable in real life, not how I imagine a man ought to be.
I like to think that my arrogance, impetuosity, impatience, selfishness and greed are the qualities that make me the lovable chap I am.
I’m not a fighter. I’m a fuzzy teddy bear. I’m not a predator. I’m not a conqueror.
It’s not who I am underneath but what I do that defines me.
It?s about the characters, it?s about the film, it?s about the process of making stunning images and a huge, epic movie. It doesn?t matter if my head was covered in a black plastic bag and I was bouncing around in a space hopper: That?s the villain of Chris Nolan?s Batman!
I love people. People are lovely creatures. I’m one myself [so] I love to see people happy.
Violence isn’t always evil. What’s evil is the infatuation with violence.
I think it’s important that you always transform if you can. That’s what I was trained to do.
I can have anything I want in life, any experience I want, but the experiences that stick with me and that I learn from are the really, truly scary ones.
I know how to work hard and I like to let that speak for me.