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

I'm just getting settled as a responsible man - but if you split the elephant into little mouthfuls it will be fine.

I hate publicists and publicity. But I love the people.

Every time you need protein, get yourself a boiled egg in. But your main meals would be chicken, or hummus, or white fish. You can lose about a pound a day. But you can do this stuff over a period of time, and you can have your happy days. It's about motivation and it has to be something that's realistic for you to keep up.

Online dating is cool but I think Myspace and Facebook is a little bit off key.

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.