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.
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.
I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.
Acting is illusion, as much illusion as magic is, and not so much a matter of being real.
With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it’s just not acting. It’s lying.
We have all, at one time or another, been performers, and many of us still are – politicians, playboys, cardinals and kings.
Acting essentially requires feeling.