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Tom Hardy, born on September 15, 1977, is a British actor known for his exceptional performances in films such as 'The Dark Knight Rises', 'Dunkirk', and 'The Dark Knight'. He has gained recognition for his unique acting style and powerful character portrayals.

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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.”

People Doe Normal Nine Vanity Bother Performers

Author:Tom Hardy

“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.”

People Thinking Way Children Sometimes Healthy Dating Online Small Child Online Dating Like Facebook

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

Thinking Littles Bits Keys Little Bit Dating Online Online Dating

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“I'm very sensitive. Because my mum was my primary emotional caregiver growing up, I found myself being pinned into dresses, darting her dresses, choosing her high heels for the evening or what to wear. I'm very much a mommy's boy.”

Found Boys Growing Up Growing Emotional Dresses Evening Primaries Sensitive Heels Mum High Heels Caregivers

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“I'm from a nice, suburban, middle-class family, but my tattoos remind me where I've been.”

Class Nice Middle Middle Class Tattoo Middle Class Family

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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!”

Ifs Thinking Wells I Can Compare Noon Brando Shanghai

Author:Tom Hardy

“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.”

Ifs Knows Mean Hate Directors Controversy Playwright Screenplays Hate Him

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“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.”

World Dog My Dog Knowledge Of The World

Author:Tom Hardy

“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.”

Knows Actors Opportunity Kings Directors

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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.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Important Keys Longevity

Author:Tom Hardy

“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.”

Knows Kind Psychologist Armchairs

Author:Tom Hardy

“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.”

Way Humans Grows Human Beings Our Lives Fit Flawed Psychosis Cauldrons

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“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.”

People Knows Problem Stuff Involved Selling Prime Gangsters Beef Gangster Movie Offal

Author:Tom Hardy

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

Done Jobs Certain Pride

Author:Tom Hardy

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

I Can Turns Can Do Teeth Brushes Do The Best Wipe Best Work Arses

Author:Tom Hardy

“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.”

Want Happens Failing Mark Being The Best Get Over

Author:Tom Hardy

“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.”

Knows Men Needs Jobs Purpose Acceptance Ambition Observing Reflecting Homework

Author:Tom Hardy

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

Ifs Shows Jobs Get Better

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“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.”

Ends Happens Father Differences Millions Five Fame Performances Dollars Fifty The End Of The Day Million Dollars

Author:Tom Hardy

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

Ifs Home Millions Dollars Fifty More Time Million Dollars

Author:Tom Hardy

“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."”

Thinking Wells Kind Ideas Levels Class Nice Middle Please Middle Class Public School Joining Legion

Author:Tom Hardy

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

Character Bits Imagination Huge Walter Mitty

Author:Tom Hardy

“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.”

World Said Problem Age School Lying My Own Drama Solutions Angel Combination Desperation Manipulate Cords Fridges Umbilical Cord

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“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.”

Hours Half Feet Walking Exercise Potatoes Couches Notorious Jogging Physical Exercise

Author:Tom Hardy

“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.”

Two Water Nice Cutting Coffee Fats Tea Diets Sugar Replaced Sauce Lemons Boiling Soy Soy Sauce Boiling Water Herbal Tea

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“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.”

Needs Would Be Motivation Stuff Can Do Loses White Periods Fishes Meals Pounds Eggs Chickens Realistic Protein Happy Day Boiled Eggs Hummus

Author:Tom Hardy

“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.”

People Thinking Knows I Can Light Would Be Challenges Interesting Environment Nice Drama Shapes Shining Destination Being Nice

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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.”

Thinking Want Would Be Force Decision Opinion Like You Driving Idiot

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“I love dogs. Like, A LOT. They’re my favorite animal. Ever.”

Animal Dog My Favorite Dog Love

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“I love people. People are lovely creatures. I'm one myself, so I love to see people happy.”

People Creatures Lovely

Author:Tom Hardy

“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?”

People Knows Want Body Bits Prepared Busy Nosey

Author:Tom Hardy

“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.”

Men Trying Long Drink Tragic

Author:Tom Hardy

“I liked you better when you were drunk .”

Drug Drunk I Liked You

Author:Tom Hardy

“Being an only child, I didn't have any other family but my mom and dad really, since the rest of my family lived quite far away from London.”

Children Mom Dad My Family My Mom London Far Away Mom And Dad Only Child

Author:Tom Hardy

“I have a very busy head. I have inside voices that I have learned to contain.”

Voice Busy I Have Learned

Author:Tom Hardy

“If you look round Hollywood there's no end of white smiles and six packs. Long lines of beautiful people lining up to be incredible on film.”

People Ifs Looks Long Ends Beautiful Film Lines White Six Hollywood Rounds Incredibles Packs Beautiful People Long Lines Six Packs Lining Up

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“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.”

People Feels Seems Felt Bits Quality Boys Feminine Masculine Overcompensating

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“I wanted my dad to be proud of me, and I fell into acting because there wasn't anything else I could do, and in it I found a discipline that I wanted to keep coming back to, that I love and I learn about every day.”

Wanted Found Acting Proud Dad Discipline My Dad Be Proud Coming Back Being A Dad Proud Of Me

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“You don't step on stage to eat; you go there to be eaten.”

Author:Tom Hardy

“Fame and stuff like that is all very cool, but at the end of the day, we're all human beings. Although what I do is incredibly surreal and fun and amazing and I'm really grateful for it, I don't believe my own press release, do you know what I mean?”

Knows Believe Humans Mean Ends Fun Stuff My Own Human Beings Fame Grateful Presses Don't Believe Release The End Of The Day Do You Know Surreal Very Cool Press Release

Author:Tom Hardy

“The lack of carbohydrates can make you a little crazy.”

Littles Crazy Carbohydrates

Author:Tom Hardy

“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 - who I am and what I should have been are two very different things.”

Should Kind Has Beens Made Two Different Age School Certain Expectations Should Have Mark East Nine Who I Am Different Things Latin Public School Should Have Been

Author:Tom Hardy

“There's an abundance of exposure when you start working in American films. Inevitably you become a brand and that has to be controlled.”

Film Brands Abundance Controlled Exposure American Film

Author:Tom Hardy

“Whatever character you play, remember they are always doing something they are not just talking.”

Play Character Remember Talking

Author:Tom Hardy

“It doesn't matter who you are. What matters is your plan.”

Matter Decision Plans Who You Are Decision Making What Matters

Author:Tom Hardy

“I hate publicists and publicity. But I love the people.”

People Hate I Hate Publicity Publicists

Author:Tom Hardy

“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.”

Hollywood Bones Muscles Tossers

Author:Tom Hardy

“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.”

People Want Play Red Toms Carpet Red Carpet Hardy

Author:Tom Hardy

“I play Xbox. I have a little boy to look after. I have dogs. You know, I have things to do. I would love to be able to sit down and watch something like a movie. I watch my own movies because I have to.”

Knows Looks Littles Play Able Actors My Own Boys Watches Dog Down And Things To Do Movie Little Boys Xbox

Author:Tom Hardy

“I think I had only been working nine months when I got Star Trek, and it was huge. It was very overwhelming. So that opened my eyes a bit at an early age, kind of how not be frightened when walking into a responsibility of something like villain in Batman, or a Hobbit, or whatever it is.”

Thinking Kind Eye Age Stars Bits Responsibility Huge Months Walking Nine Frightened Overwhelming Nine Months

Author:Tom Hardy

About the Author

Born: September 15, 1977
Known for: Actor
Quotes: 60

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