Thomas Hardy is an English actor, producer, and former model. Hardy made his film debut in Ridley Scott’s Black Hawk Down and has since played in such films as Star Trek: Nemesis , RocknRolla, Bronson, Warrior, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Lawless, Locke, The Drop, and The Revenant, for which he received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. In 2015, Hardy portrayed ‘Mad’ Max Rockatansky in Mad Max: Fury Road and both Kray twins in Legend. He has appeared in three Christopher Nolan films: Inception, The Dark Knight Rises as Bane, and Dunkirk. He starred as Eddie Brock / Venom in the antihero film Venom. May his quotes inspire you to take action so that you may live your dreams.
1. “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
2. “I have a very busy head. I have inside voices that I have learned to contain.” Tom Hardy
3. “I’m just getting settled as a responsible man – but if you split the elephant into little mouthfuls it will be fine.” Tom Hardy
4. “I want to be the best at what I do.” Tom Hardy
5. “You mustn’t be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling.” Tom Hardy
6. “There’s always a certain pride in getting the job done properly.” Tom Hardy
7. “We are survivors. We control the fear. And without the fear, we are all as good as dead.” Tom Hardy
8. “One remembers those one looks up to more readily than those you look down upon.” Tom Hardy
9. “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
10. “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
11. “You don’t step on stage to eat; you go there to be eaten.” Tom Hardy
12. “I didn’t understand how you could do something which is so much fun and be so miserable doing it.” Tom Hardy
13. “Trust requires a little time.” Tom Hardy
14. “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
15. “Love is doing something you don’t want to do for someone you don’t particularly like at that moment.” Tom Hardy
16. “A great man is largely forgotten by the public.” Tom Hardy
17. “There is enough treachery already surrounding us that there is no need for us to add to it.” Tom Hardy
18. “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
19. “Intelligence is a very valuable thing, innit, my friend? And usually it comes far too late.” Tom Hardy
20. “It doesn’t matter who you are. What matters is your plan.” Tom Hardy
21. “I’m here to challenge myself and to see whether I can shapeshift 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
22. “Theatricality and deception, powerful agents to the uninitiated.” Tom Hardy
23. “I hate publicists and publicity. But I love the people.” Tom Hardy
24. “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
25. “It is not the violence that sets a man apart, it is the distance he is prepared to go.” Tom Hardy
26. “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 a man needs purpose.” Tom Hardy
27. “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 it casually an hour later with third-degree burns and bandages up to my arms.” Tom Hardy
28. “It would be logical to conclude there will be a change of some kind in the status quo.” Tom Hardy
29. “The only thing I can do is brush my teeth, turn up, and do the best work I can.” Tom Hardy
30. “Within the creative arts you can create things and destroy things. Passion creates and destroys.” Tom Hardy
31. “Never give power to the big man.” Tom Hardy
32. “The time is now.” Tom Hardy
33. “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
34. “I had a huge imagination. My grandad says I was a bit of a Walter Mitty character.” Tom Hardy
35. “Responsibility has a cost, and there’s no such thing as a perfection.” Tom Hardy
