I Wanted My Dad To Be Proud

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!

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 Think It's Important That You Always Transform If You Can. That's What I Was Trained To Do. You Try And Hide Yourself As Much As You Can - That's The Key To Longevity.

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 Villain In Batman, Or A Hobbit, Or Whatever It Is.

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... I 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.