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.

It doesn't matter who you are. What matters is your plan.

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.

Whatever character you play, remember they are always doing something they are not just talking.

I have a very busy head. I have inside voices that I have learned to contain.

Love is doing something you don't want to do for someone you don't particularly like at that moment.

You don't step on stage to eat; you go there to be eaten.

I'm an armchair psychologist, I suppose, and I like to kind of sit around and guess and pretend I know what's going on.

I'm from a nice, suburban, middle-class family, but my tattoos remind me where I've been.

I love people. People are lovely creatures. I'm one myself, so I love to see people happy.

The only thing I can do is wipe my arse, brush my teeth, turn up and do the best work I can.

Be Like Lightning Which Has The Power To Animate Or Destroy Life.... It's Up To You Which Side You Wanna Take....

He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead for she is wont to favor the bold.

Even a day writing badly for me is 10 times better than a day where I don’t write at all.

The 'renewed' mind is the canvas on which the Spirit of God can paint.

Books ought to have good endings.How would this do: and they all settled down and lived together happily ever after?

I'm definitely gonna be the People's champion ... but I just ain't gonna be the champ the way you want me to be the champ. I'm gonna be the champ the way I wanna be.

Pigpen was and is now forever one of the Grateful Dead.

I also believe that when one dies, one may wake up to the reality that proves that time does not exist.

If I get to be a legend, I've achieved my goal.

Putting out a newspaper without promotion is like winking at a girl in the dark -- well-intentioned, but ineffective.