I have a very busy head. I have inside voices that I have learned to contain.
There's an abundance of exposure when you start working in American films. Inevitably you become a brand and that has to be controlled.
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!'
The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.
It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound.
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.
Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
I hate publicists and publicity. But I love the people.
You was a good man, and did good things.
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.
A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.
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.
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.
Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending it.
Yes; quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you'd treat if met where any bar is, or help to half-a-crown.
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.
Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would.
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?
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.
The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.
Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.
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.'
Aspect are within us, and who seems most kingly is king.
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed nothing is too strange to have happened.
Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
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.
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.
Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
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.
If a way to the better there be it lies in taking a full look at the worst.
The excessive regard of parents for their children, and their dislike of other people's is, like class feeling, patriotism, save-your-soul-ism, and other virtues, a mean exclusiveness at bottom.
I'm from a nice, suburban, middle-class family, but my tattoos remind me where I've been.
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.
I like to be other people, not me. And when you're on the red carpet, it's like, 'Here's Tom Hardy.' I don't want to be me. That's why I play other people.
The characters I've played have been mostly violent, and I'm so far from being violent or aggressive. I spend a lot of time watching 'Fireman Sam' with my three-year-old son Louis.
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.
Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.
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.
I'm just getting settled as a responsible man - but if you split the elephant into little mouthfuls it will be fine.
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.
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.
A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.
You can do anything with bayonets except sit on them.
The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.
A mans silence is wonderful to listen to.
Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.
