Latest Tom Hardy Quotes from Interviews

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• 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 Hardy

  Men, Long, Trying

  "Rough Character". Interview with Michael Slenske, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 13, 2009.

• 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

  Thinking, Decision, Would Be

  "Bronson - Tom Hardy interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

• Every time you need protein, get yourself a boiled egg in. But your main meals would be chicken, or hummus, or white fish. You can lose about a pound a day. But you can do this stuff over a period of time, and you can have your happy days. It's about motivation and it has to be something that's realistic for you to keep up.

  Tom Hardy

  Motivation, Eggs, White

  "Bronson - Tom Hardy interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

• I'm here to challenge myself and to see whether I can shape-shift in an environment that's actually quite daunting, but which I think would be nice to shine a light into. The destination of any interesting drama is that you shine a light into a place that not many people know about.

  Tom Hardy

  Nice, Drama, Thinking

  "Bronson - Tom Hardy interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

• Then there's your diet. You cut out sugars, fat, soy sauces... anything that's nice. Tea and coffee is replaced by boiling water with lemon. It's amazing how quickly you get into it. There's also herbal tea and a lot of water, obviously... about two litres a day.

  Tom Hardy

  Nice, Coffee, Cutting

  "Bronson - Tom Hardy interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

• t's much less daunting once you've put your foot on the road to it. I'm a notorious couch potato and I don't like exercise. Half an hour of physical exercise, like jogging or fast walking a day is a start.

  Tom Hardy

  Exercise, Feet, Jogging

  "Bronson - Tom Hardy interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

• I had a huge imagination. My granddad says I was a bit of a Walter Mitty character.

  Tom Hardy

  Character, Imagination, Bits

  "Martina Cole's The Take - Tom Hardy interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

• I'd learned how to lie and manipulate from an early age so a combination of that, desperation, having to have my own fridge and my umbilical cord back... I had to go out into the world. Then some angel somewhere said: "Have you considered going to drama school?" And this sounded like the solution to all of my problems.

  Tom Hardy

  Drama, Lying, Angel

  "Martina Cole's The Take - Tom Hardy interview". Interview, www.indielondon.co.uk.

• I'm a nice middle class public schoolboy who underachieved and wasn't going anywhere fast. I didn't get any GCSEs or A-levels. But everyone was like: "Please, will you do something?" And I was thinking: "Well, I kind of like the idea of joining the French Foreign Legion."

  Tom Hardy

  Nice, Thinking, Class

  "Martina Cole's The Take - Tom Hardy interview". Interview, www.indielondon.co.uk.

• I guess if I had fifty million dollars I could spend more time at home.

  Tom Hardy

  Home, Fifty, Dollars

  "Martina Cole's The Take - Tom Hardy interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

• I get hired more then I get seen more. I get seen more then maybe celebrity and fame happens but at the end of the day there's no difference between my five dollar performance and my fifty million dollar performance. It's not going to make me a better father.

  Tom Hardy

  Father, Differences, The End Of The Day

  "Martina Cole's The Take - Tom Hardy interview". Interview, www.indielondon.co.uk.

• I don't know anything about god except that it's not me. So, somewhere between that acceptance and doing my homework and being competitive and having ambition and loving my job and observing and reflecting my society, that's where I find the purpose. Because man needs purpose.

  Tom Hardy

  Jobs, Ambition, Acceptance

  "Martina Cole's The Take - Tom Hardy interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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

  Tom Hardy

  Jobs, Get Better, Shows

  "Martina Cole's The Take - Tom Hardy interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

• The only thing I can do is wipe my arse, brush my teeth, turn up and do the best work I can.

  Tom Hardy

  Teeth, Arses, Wipe

  "Martina Cole's The Take - Tom Hardy interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

• 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

  Want, Failing, Being The Best

  "Martina Cole's The Take - Tom Hardy interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

• The problem with prime beef is that there are so many people out there selling offal. So you don't know when you're going eat a shitty gangster movie. Because everybody knows there's good stuff to be involved in.

  Tom Hardy

  People, Beef, Stuff

  "Martina Cole's The Take - Tom Hardy interview". Interview, www.indielondon.co.uk.

• There's always a certain pride in getting the job done properly.

  Tom Hardy

  Jobs, Pride, Done

  "Martina Cole's The Take - Tom Hardy interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

• 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

  Psychosis, Way, Fit

  "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy - Tom Hardy interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

• 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

  Kind, Psychologist, Armchairs

  "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy - Tom Hardy interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

• 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

  Thinking, Keys, Important

  Source: www.ew.com

• As actors, we have the opportunity to work with many directors. Directors only work with themselves and other actors. They never know what it is like to work with another director. So that relationship that one has with a director is entirely always the king.

  Tom Hardy

  Kings, Opportunity, Directors

  "Tom Hardy and Joel Edgerton Talk WARRIOR, THE DARK KNIGHT RISES, GREAT GATSBY and MAD MAX: FURY ROAD". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintarub, collider.com. September 7, 2011.

• 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.

  Tom Hardy

  Dog, World, Knowledge Of The World

  "Tom Hardy Talks Following Heath Ledger’s Joker, Bane’s Costume, STAR TREK and More on the Set of THE DARK KNIGHT RISES". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintarub, collider.com. May 27, 2012.

• Online dating is cool but I think Myspace and Facebook is a little bit off key.

  Tom Hardy

  Thinking, Keys, Dating

  "Tom Hardy, Reese Witherspoon, Chelsea Handler and Director McG Talk THIS MEANS WAR". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. February 14, 2012.

• 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

  Children, Thinking, People

  "Tom Hardy, Reese Witherspoon, Chelsea Handler and Director McG Talk THIS MEANS WAR". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. February 14, 2012.

• 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

  Vanity, People, Doe

  "Tom Hardy Talks Grown-Up Love". Interview with Mickey Rapkin, www.elle.com. July 19, 2012.