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.
When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. There is no middle ground.
The child who doesn’t play is not a child, but the man who doesn’t play has lost forever the child who lived in him and he will certainly miss him.[El niño que no juega no es niño, pero el hombre que no juega perdió para siempre al niño que vivía en él y que le hará mucha falta.]
Yesterday, love was such an easy game to play. Now I need a place to hide away.
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.
Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied? – come, children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.
When you work with talented people that elevate you, it feels more like play.
We used to play music for fun. Much more than now. Now nobody picks up a guitar unless they’re paid for it.
To play so as to be relaxed and refreshed for work is not to play, and no work is well and finely done unless it, too, is a form of play.
There is time to play…and then there are times to work hard and get my fans an album.
There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
