Tom Hardy Quotes

I enjoyed my 20s - they were torturous and beautiful. I learned so much about myself and about life and about the nature of people.

I do write about people who are complex and are striving with something and can't quite get past their own stuff, which would be a proxy for myself because that's what the deal is with me.

...one of the worst things about being a parent, for me, is the self-discovery, the being face to face with one's secret insanity and brokenness and rage.

I was down after divorce - I was all the way down. And I just felt like, "God, I gotta turn this around. I can't go down like this. I have to know that this is happening for a reason." And I knew that I had to turn to music.

I am convinced that most people do not grow up ... our real selves, the children inside, are still innocent and shy as magnolias.

If one has such an encounter it is to be expected it will bring him into conflict, especially conflict with himself, because one sometimes literally does not know what to do or what not to do. But is this struggle and even the mistakes one may make, not better, and do they not develop us more than if we keep systematically away from emotions?

I like this idea of becoming fully realised.

I tell people not to write too soon about their lives. Writing about yourself too young is loaded with psychological complexities.

All of my problems are rather complicated - I need an entire novel to deal with them, not a short story or a movie. It's like a personal therapy.

The obsessions we have are pretty much the same our whole lives. Mine are people, the human condition, life.

Anybody can get lost in themselves.

The two records are very different. I guess, on the second record, that's more where I was at. Its not that I'm more well-adjusted or anything, it's just that what I wanted to sing about maybe was more the way I wanted to feel.

Your emotional life is not written in cement during childhood. You write each chapter as you go along.

There are parts of me that I keep secret even from myself. I have demons and I'd love to be able to healthily look at the demons and still be a wonderful actor and not feel I need them to create.

There are very few well-adjusted people in my books. But I do think that's normal. Because everyone does have their issues and hang-ups.

Ultimately, I'm a mess. I don't mean I'm a mess, like, emotionally - I mean, I think probably everybody's a mess. David's a mess. But. I'm talking about... I'm messy.

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass. Change may be announced by a small ache, so that you think you're catching cold. Or you may feel a faint disgust for something you loved yesterday. It may even take the form of a hunger that peanuts won't satisfy. Isn't overeating said to be one of the strongest symptoms of discontent. And isn't discontent the lever of change?

I've been in therapy. I know enough about myself now to know that I really don't need to know anymore.

We've all got darkness inside us. And I've got quite a lot of darkness.

What interests me are the complexities and contradictions and struggles and joys of messy human beings.

I think that there is a tragic misfit at the core of me, and I've just done a lot of work on myself. I love a good self-help book; I've read a ton of them. I love self-help seminars and therapy and all that.

I've been in therapy my whole life.

Being a full human being is difficult, frightening, and problematical.

It excites me to go to a movie and be reminded that I'm human, and I'm filled with opposites, and I'm built with flaws. Part of growth and healing is recognizing that.

Emotion is a broad spectrum and I just been to a lot of sides of my own emotions.