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

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

My job is to show and tell. If I get better at showing and telling then presumably I get hired more.

The lack of carbohydrates can make you a little crazy.

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

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'm from East Sheen, I went to public school where I learned Latin at the age of nine, and certain expectations were made of me to go to St Paul's, Oxbridge maybe, and all that kind of thing. And I failed systematically to meet the mark - who I am and what I should have been are two very different things.