Tom Hardy Quotes

I will never reach perfection.

And I laugh at myself for thinking I could touch the sky.

I don't see myself as the perfect person at all.

Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.

When people call me God, I say, no, I'm still an angel or saint of acting. I still have a long way to go.

True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.

I find it grotesque when clothes hit you in the face and there's no room for fault. But I don't expect to turn things around all by myself. I'm not a saint.

I'd love to think that I'm a super human being, but I'm not.

I don't want to be perceived as someone who has it all figured out. I certainly don't feel entitled or like I'm a superstar. I'm still growing, learning, and figuring things out.

I thought I was so much smarter than everybody. And I'm not.

Obviously, if I could go back and change anything, I would be a perfect man. And I know there's no perfect man.

I always want to be as good in the part as I possibly can. But I make no pretensions of being the greatest actor in the world.

When I grab the microphone, I am the greatest rapper, musician, and artist that ever lived, ever, in the entire universe - but when I put that microphone down, I am a man with so much to learn, personally and professionally.

I don't get carried away by any praise; I know I have miles to go.

I don't see myself as a world-class player.

From what I came from, all the negative criticism - that keeps me from embracing that title of being the best. Because I always feel like there is another level I have to get to.

I don't want to believe my own hype. I want to stay hungry and stay eager and be the best that I can be.

You must always strive to be the best, but you must never believe that you are.

The minute you feel you have given a faultless performance is the time to get out.

It is always legitimate to wish to rise above one's self, never above others.

No one can grow if he does not accept his smallness.

What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place...The old humility was a spur that prevented a man from stopping; not a nail in his boot that prevented him from going on. For the old humility made a man doubtful about his efforts, which made him work harder. But the new humility makes a man doubtful about his aims, which will make him stop working altogether.

I haven't accomplished nothing yet - I have a long way to go.

Success is born out of arrogance, but greatness comes from humility.

If you would improve, submit to be considered wihout sense and foolish with respect to externals. Wish to be considered to know nothing; and if you shall seem to someone to be a person of importance, distrust yourself.