Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Tom Hardy
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: September 15
Actor
Executive Producer
Film Actor
Film Producer
Model
Screenwriter
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Hammersmith
London
Edward Thomas Hardy
Edward Tomi Nabo
Ideas
Wasn
Legion
Wells
Middle
Joining
Well
Public
French
Going
Nice
Foreign
Kind
Class
Anywhere
Something
Idea
Fast
Thinking
Everyone
Please
Like
Didn
Levels
Schoolboy

More quotes by Tom Hardy

Image
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
Image
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
Image
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
Image
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
Image
The lack of carbohydrates can make you a little crazy.
Tom Hardy
Image
I have a very busy head. I have inside voices that I have learned to contain.
Tom Hardy
Image
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
Image
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
Image
Maybe it's a little ambitious of me to presume that no matter how big the film is, that I can always go down to the shop to buy a pint of milk.
Tom Hardy
Image
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
Image
My job is to show and tell. If I get better at showing and telling then presumably I get hired more.
Tom Hardy
Image
Whatever character you play, remember they are always doing something they are not just talking.
Tom Hardy
Image
Online dating is cool but I think Myspace and Facebook is a little bit off key.
Tom Hardy
Image
I hate publicists and publicity. But I love the people.
Tom Hardy
Image
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
Image
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
Image
Love is doing something you don't want to do for someone you don't particularly like at that moment.
Tom Hardy
Image
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
Image
There's an abundance of exposure when you start working in American films. Inevitably you become a brand and that has to be controlled.
Tom Hardy
Image
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