Edward Thomas Hardy CBE is an English actor and producer. He is best known for his roles and cerebral performances in films like ‘Inception,’ ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ and ‘The Revenant.’ Inspirational Tom Hardy quotes will motivate you to face fear, live a bold life and achieve greatness.
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Famous Tom Hardy Quotes
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
The funny thing is when you don’t let people disrespect you, they start calling you difficult. Tom Hardy
I had no immediate knowledge of the world or Batman at all. I’m quite incubated. I just keep myself to myself and my dog. Tom Hardy
I was raised to treat the janitor with the same respect as the CEO. 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
At least that way we might be able to together come across some kind of redemption. 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
Jiu 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’m not interested in walks in the parks. Anything difficult that people think I couldn’t play, I’m straight at it. If they say Tom, don’t put your hand in the fire, you know I’ll be coming out of casualty an hour later with third degree burns and bandages up my arms. Tom Hardy
There’s something that’s very human about Warriors that brings you out. You’re watching the movie and, yeah, there’s fighting, there’s a tournament at the end of the movie, but it takes a long time to get to know these people. 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
You know too much psychology when you can’t get mad at people because you understand everyone’s reason for doing everything. Tom Hardy
Spirituality seems to me to be for those who’ve been through hell. Tom Hardy
There’s always a certain pride in getting a job done properly. 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
There’s two types of acting convincing and not convincing. People describe me as intense. It’s because I care. Tom Hardy
You mustn’t be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling. Tom Hardy
Responsibility has a cost, and there’s no such thing as perfection. 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’m just getting settled as a responsible man but if you split the elephant into little mouthfuls it will be fine. Tom Hardy
I don’t like it when people say, Well, you should have expected that when you accepted the jb as an actor. When you go to drama school, no one gives you a class on fame. Just treat people how you wish to be treated. Whether I’m married or not married, people will find out. But it’s also not something I’m going to offer. Tom Hardy
I am the one that runs from both the living and the dead. Hunted by scavengers, haunted by those I could not protect. So I exist in this wasteland, reduced to one instinct survive. Tom Hardy
I hate publicists and publicity. But I love people. Tom Hardy
Weak people always have to be in a relationship so they can feel important and loved. Once you start enjoying your own company, being single becomes a privilege. 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
You know, hope is a mistake. If you can’t fix what’s broken, you’ll, uh you’ll go insane. Tom Hardy
I’m from a nice, suburban, idle class family, but my tattoos remind me where I’ve been. Tom Hardy
Being alone for a while is dangerous. It’s addicting. Once you see how peaceful it is, you don’t want to deal with people anymore. 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
The only thing I can do is wipe my arse, brush my teeth, turn up, and do the best work I can. Tom Hardy
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 unscrupulous oiks back home earless, toothless vagabonds to teach me the arts of the old bagarre. 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. Tom Hardy
Thanks for all the wonderful paintings and drawings and writings. I am very honoured to have your support, and love you for the energy and the inspiring work and comments that you bring to the table. Tom Hardy
A great man is largely forgotten by the public. He doesn’t stand on top of a mountain waving a flag saying, Look at me I’m a great man. A great man often disappears into the ether. Tom Hardy
Vanity is normal in performers. Does it bother other people? All the time. But nine times out of ten, that says more about them than you. 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
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
Within the creative arts you can create things and destroy things. Passion creates and destroys. Tom Hardy
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. Mr. Holland’s Opus, unbelievably, broke me. A random anomaly. Bambi would probably do me. Tom Hardy
There is a long way to go on, but I do believe that the time is now. Tom Hardy
I want to dispel that it’s all about celebrity ism, I’m fucking bored of people looking at whose shoes are interesting and what hat is interesting. Storytelling is very important to people, it comforts them, unite us, cheers us up, we can affect change with these arts. We need to be entertained to connect. 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’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. Tom Hardy
Whatever character you play, remember they are always doing something. They are not just talking. They are alive; going through a drama in which they will go through some sort of dramatic human experience. Tom Hardy
In the end there was nothing else I could do. I had a busy head and I didn’t really want to do things that I found boring. The only thing that kept my attention was to play and have fun and manipulate. I’ve always been a liar, always been able to manipulate. I pretty much get whatever I want. Tom Hardy
I had a huge imagination. My granddad says I was a bit of a Walter Mitty character. 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
Oh, you think darkness is your ally. But you merely adopted the dark; I was born in it, moulded by it. I didn’t see the light until I was already a man, by then it was nothing to me but blinding! 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
When I was nine, I ran in a school race, and I suddenly realized I was in the lead. I looked at the finish line, and just freaked out, then ran to the side as if I’d hurt myself. It was everything to do with the fear of success. Tom Hardy
We are survivors. We control the fear. And without the fear, we are all as good as dead. Tom Hardy
Remove sex from a relationship and you will discover that a lot of people have nothing to offer. 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
Love is doing something you don’t want to do for someone you don’t particularly like at that moment. Tom Hardy
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. Tom Hardy
As the world fell, each of us, in our own way, was broken. It was hard to know who was more crazy, me or everyone else. Tom Hardy
I identify with having strong, powerful female influences in my life. Do you think that women are fairly represented in screenplays, film, TV, and theatre today? Or do you think there should be better parts for women than just girlfriend and wife or lover? Because I’m bored with that. Tom Hardy
I am dating myself. I take myself out to eat. I buy myself clothes. I love me. Tom Hardy
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. Tom Hardy
If you’re lucky like me, your relationship with your brother has resolved itself on the peaceful side of the fence and has stayed there. But if you’re someone who’s got a family that’s all fractured and finding it hard to relate, that’s a very sad place to be. 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. Tom Hardy
I love people. People are lovely creatures. I’m one myself so I love to see people happy. 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 the waiting for it. Tom Hardy
You mustn’t be afraid to dream a little bigger. Tom Hardy
There’s a long way to go on that, but I do believe that the time is now. Tom Hardy
It is not the violence that sets a man apart, it is the distance he is prepared to go. 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
It doesn’t matter who you are. What matters is your plan. Tom Hardy
I didn’t understand how you could do something which is so much fun and be so miserable doing it. Tom Hardy
I identify with having strong, powerful female influences in my life. Do you think that women are fairly represented in screenplays, film, TV, and theatre today? Or do you think there should be better parts for women than just girlfriend and wife or lover? Because I’m bored with that. Tom Hardy
