Tom Hardy has been in the film industry for over a decade now, and in that time he has become one of the most respected actors working today. He is known for his intense performances, and his willingness to take on any role.
In this article are some of the most famous inspirational quotes on love, success, career, relationship, and life.
Inspirational Tom Hardy Quotes
1. “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.”
2. “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.”
3. “I hate publicists and publicity.” But I love the people.”
3. “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.”
4. “Spirituality seems to me to be for those who’ve been through hell.”
5. “You mustn’t be afraid to dream a little bigger.”
6. “The only thing I can do is wipe my arse, brush my teeth, turn up, and do the best work I can.”
7. “Vanity is normal in performers. Does it bother other people? All the time. But 9 times out of 10, that says more about them than you.”
8. “We are survivors. We control the fear. And without fear, we are all as good as dead.”
9. “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.”
10. “Never give power to the big man.”
11. “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.”
12. “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.”
13. “There’s always a certain pride in getting a job done properly.”
14. “So, somewhere between that acceptance and doing my homework and being competitive and having ambition and loving my job and observing and reflecting on my society, that’s where I find the purpose. Because man needs a purpose. “
15. “Within the creative arts, you can create things and destroy things. Passion creates and destroys.”
16. “Fame and stuff like that is all very cool, but 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?”
17. “You don’t step on stage to eat, you go there to be eaten.”
18. “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.”
19. “I don’t like it when people say, ‘Well, you should have expected that when you accepted the job 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.”
20. I hate publicists and publicity. But I love the people. Tom Hardy
Tom Hardy Quotes on Respect
21. “The characters I’ve played have been mostly violent, and I’m so far from being violent or aggressive.”
22. “I look both ways before crossing a one-way street. That’s how much faith I have left in humanity.”
23. “Intelligence is a very valuable thing, innit, my friend? And usually, it comes far too late.”
24. “The funny thing is when you don’t let people disrespect you, they start calling you difficult.”
25. “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.”
26.“It is not the violence that sets a man apart, it is the distance he is prepared to go.”
27. “I see myself as a piece of meat. And it’s purely subjective. For me, I know that’s the best I can do.”
28. “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.”
29. “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.”
30. “You know too much psychology when you can’t get mad at people because you understand everyone’s reason for doing everything.”
Tom Hardy Quotes About Being Success
31. “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.”
32. “I’m from a nice, suburban, idle-class family, but my tattoos remind me where I’ve been.”
33. “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.”
34. “No matter how much you can prepare for it, 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.”
35. “I get hired more than I get seen more. I get seen more, then maybe celebrity and fame happens, but there’s no difference between my five-dollar performance and my fifty million dollar performance. “
36. “But I think as you get into your 40s, you have to be more mindful of the rapid training, packing on a lot of weight and getting physical, and then not having enough time to keep training because you’re busy filming, so your body is swimming in two different directions at the same time.”
37. “It was always in the cards for Michael. It was always in the cards for him. I’m not surprised about him at all, because he was awesome. Me, I don’t know how I got here! I feel like I just came from delivering pizza and I got lucky.”
38. “It is your job to make them become so. Anything you do on stage or film has a direct relation to something you have experienced in one form or another in real life. Use your imagination to exaggerate or lessen that sensation. Then, disguise it in characterization and don’t forget to make lots and lots of mistakes, and look like a complete *Chile*. You’ll do fine.”
39. “I’m never lost in a character, ever. Everything is absolutely articulated and worked out and there’s no room for error. The only thing there is room for is inspiration in the moment because you’ve done your homework up to that point.”
40. “My job is to show and tell. If I get better at showing and telling, then presumably I will get hired more.”
41. 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.”
42. “If you look around Hollywood there’s no end of white smiles and six packs. Long lines of beautiful people lining up to be incredible on film.”
43. “There’s no feeling of, ‘I’ve got to be the best in the world.’ I’m going to be the best I can. I tell myself, it’s only storytelling and it’s going to be OK and you love doing this. Pick any one of the reasons to do it and, for the next five minutes, enjoy that. It’s one thing being on top, but knowing what to do while you’re there is something else. Do you milk it for everything it’s worth or try to be choosy in order to gain some longevity?”
44. “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 *ss 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.”
45. “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 Quotes About Life
46. “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.”
47. “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.”
48. “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?”
49.“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,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.”
50. “I have a very busy head. I have inside voices that I have learned to contain.”
51. “I want to dispel that it’s all about celebrity-ism, I’m f*ck*ng bored of people looking at whose shoes are interesting and what hat is interesting. Storytelling is very important to people, it comforts them, unites us, cheers us up, and we can affect change with these arts. We need to be entertained to connect.”
52. “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.”
53. “I didn’t understand how you could do something which is so much fun and be so miserable doing it.”
54. “I went entirely off the rails and I’m lucky I didn’t have some terrible accident or end up in prison or dead, because that’s where I was going. Now I know my beast and I know how to manage it. It’s like living with a 400 pound orangutan that wants to kill me. It’s much more powerful than me, doesn’t speak the same language and it runs around the darkness of my soul.”
55. “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.”
56. “Style, I think, is panache. Who are you? What did you do today? And what are you worth to me? What do you have to offer the world? How did you spend your time today on this planet? How are you spending your time every second? What are you doing now? Are you alive, or are you somnambulant?”
57. “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.”
58. “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.”
59. “I’m not really a road dog. I’m a bit of a homeboy. But the reality is, I love what I f*ck*ng do.”
60. “The lack of carbohydrates can make you a little crazy.”
Tom Hardy Quotes on Relationships
61. “Online dating is cool but I think Myspace and Facebook are a little bit off key.”
62. “I’m an actor, for f*ck’s sake. I’m an artist. I’ve played with anything and anyone. But I’m not into men sexually. I love the form and the physicality but the gay sex bit does nothing for me.To me, it just doesn’t compute to me now that I’m in my 30s and it doesn’t do it for me and I’m done experimenting.”
63. “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.”
64. “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 to be frightened when walking into a responsibility of something like that.”
65. “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.”
66. “I am dating myself. I take myself out to eat. I buy myself clothes. I love me.”
67. “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.”
68. “I love people. People are lovely creatures. I’m one myself so I love to see people happy.”
69. “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.”
70. “A wifey isn’t just a girl who just smokes and has sex with you whenever. A wifey is a woman that motivates you and makes sure you’re not sleeping in life.”
71. “Remove sex from a relationship and you will discover that a lot of people have nothing to offer.”
72. “I thought I’d have a little bit of a party, and I’d end up high and frightened, in places that scared me. In a blackout I could end up anywhere, I might wake up somewhere on the other side of London, or in another country or in bed with someone I didn’t know, not knowing how I got there.”
73. “You know, there’s a saying amongst us in the fraternity of acting, and in the fellowship of my peer group, that if you talk about it you’re automatically out of the race. So I can’t possibly comment on that one! If I mention it, it’s gone.”
74. “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.”
75. “You know, there’s a saying amongst us in the fraternity of acting, and in the fellowship of my peer group, that if you talk about it you’re automatically out of the race. So I can’t possibly comment on that one! If I mention it, it’s gone.”
76. “I thought I’d have a little bit of a party, and I’d end up high and frightened, in places that scared me. In a blackout I could end up anywhere, I might wake up somewhere on the other side of London, or in another country or in bed with someone I didn’t know, not knowing how I got there.”
77. 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.
78. 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.
79. There’s something that’s very human about ‘Warriorv 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.
80. 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.
81. 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?
82. 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.
83. 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.
84. 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.
85. 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.
86. I have a very busy head. I have inside voices that I have learned to contain.
87. I’m from a nice, suburban, middle-class family, but my tattoos remind me where I’ve been.
88. 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.
89. 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!
90. 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.
91. It’s about the characters, it’s about the film, it’s about the process of making stunning visuals and a huge, epic movie. It doesn’t matter if my head was covered in a black plastic bag and I was bouncing around in a space hopper: That’s the villain of Chris Nolan’s ‘Batman!’ Tom Hardy
92. 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
93. I don’t want to be me. That’s why I play other people.
94. I like to be other people, not me. And when you’re on the red carpet, it’s like, ‘Here’s Tom Hardy.’
95. Nobody paid any attention career-wise to me in America until ‘Bronson.’ It gave me a calling card and passage into America, where I’ve always wanted to work. Tom Hardy
96. 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. Tom Hardy
97. I’m incredibly grateful to be playing the villain in a world which, if I really thought to hard about what I was doing, I would get very nervous about the size and the magnitude of the importance and responsibility of being a villain in the world of ‘Batman.’ Tom Hardy
98. The lack of carbohydrates can make you a little crazy. Tom Hardy
99. 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. Tom Hardy
100. Style, I think, is panache. Who are you? What did you do today? And what are you worth to me? What do you have to offer the world? How did you spend your time today on this planet? How are you spending your time every second? What are you doing now? Are you alive, or are you somnambulant? Tom Hardy
Conclusion
Tom Hardy is an amazing actor who has starred in some great films. He is also a very wise man, as seen through these quotes. It is clear that he is a deep thinker and someone who is not afraid to speak his mind. We can all learn a lot from Tom Hardy, both as an actor and as a person.
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