Tom Hardy, born on September 15, 1977, in London, UK. He is known for his good looks, personality, and performances in both offbeat films and mainstream hits. Hardy’s childhood and early maturity gave the little signal that he would one day become a movie star. He was expelled from school, then arrested for ownership of a gun, and then he became a drug addict and an alcoholic as a teenager. His profession was unsuccessful to truly take off, but after he entered a drug rehabilitation program in 2003 on a London street. Tom Hardy quotes are inspirational, his saying are motivational as it will teach us the meaning of hard work and how to achieve success.
37 Tom Hardy Quotes
- “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.” 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?” Tom Hardy
- “The lack of carbohydrates can make you a little crazy.” Tom Hardy
- “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.” Tom Hardy
- “People who are scary, they terrify me, but I can imitate them. I’m not a fighter. I’m a petite little bourgeois boy from London. I don’t fight, I mimic.” Tom Hardy
- “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
- “I hate publicists and publicity. But I love people.” Tom Hardy
- “The only thing I can do is wipe my arse, brush my teeth, turn up, and do the best work I can.” Tom Hardy
- “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
- “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” Tom Hardy
- “There’s is a long way to go on that, but I do believe that the time is now.” Tom Hardy
- “I have a very busy head. I have inside voices that I have learned to contain.” Tom Hardy
- “Within the creative arts, you can create things and destroy things. Passion creates and destroys.” Tom Hardy
- “No matter how much you can prepare for [auditions], there’s nothing worse than the anticipation. It’s always the killer of everything. The actuality of doing something is normally a lot easier than waiting for it.” Tom Hardy
- “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
- “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 that.” Tom Hardy
- “And I like people. I like to know what you’re really up to. I’m a bit of a nosey busybody. 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
- “I was raised to treat the janitor with the same respect as the CEO.” Tom Hardy
- “Spirituality seems to me to be for those who’ve been through hell.” 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.” Tom Hardy
- “We are survivors. We control the fear. And without the fear, we are all as good as dead.” Tom Hardy
- “I’m from a nice, suburban, middle-class family, but my tattoos remind me where I’ve been.” Tom Hardy
- “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.” Tom Hardy
- “There’s two types of acting: convincing and not convincing. People describe me as intense. It’s because I care. I am a pain in the ass because I care. Do I know what I’m doing? No. Do I have the best of intentions? Yes. Does that lead to hell? Sometimes.” Tom Hardy
- “I’m just getting settled as a responsible man but if you split the elephant into little mouthfuls it will be fine.” Tom Hardy
- “You mustn’t be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling.” Tom Hardy
- “It doesn’t matter who you are. What matters is your plan.” Tom Hardy
- “Love is doing something you don’t want to do for someone you don’t particularly like at that moment.” Tom Hardy
- “It’s funny in that because it is acting, and playing pretend, but I didn’t see myself being synonymous with these tough-guy roles. That’s not really me. I love acting. There was Bane, Warrior, Bronson, and now the Krays. I’m just surprised to be working, mate. Whatever gets me through the door.” Tom Hardy
- “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.” Tom Hardy
- “I didn’t understand how you could do something which is so much fun and be so miserable doing it.” 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
- “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
- “Responsibility has a cost, and there is no such thing as a perfection.” 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.” Tom Hardy
- “You don’t step on stage to eat; you go there to be eaten.” Tom Hardy
- “Stop thinking that just because you have a college degree, it makes you smart. I know a lot of people who own a driver’s license yet they can’t drive for shit.” Tom Hardy
