The Only Thing I Can Do Is

My Father Came From An Intellectual And Studious Avenue As Opposed To A Brawler's Avenue. So I Had To Go Further Afield And I Brought All Kinds Of Unscrupulous Oiks Back Home - Earless, Toothless Vagabonds - To Teach Me The Arts Of The Old Bagarre.

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.

I Hate Publicists And Publicity. But I Love The People.

I'm A Nice Middle Class Public Schoolboy Who Underachieved And Wasn't Going Anywhere Fast. I Didn't Get Any Gcses Or A-levels. But Everyone Was Like: "please, Will You Do Something?" And I Was Thinking: "well, I Kind Of Like The Idea Of Joining The French Foreign Legion."