Tom Hardy on how he started out as an actor:
I clutched onto this so called lifeboat because at first it promised to keep me at home with my mother and from having to grow up too fast. Then, I really got into it as a craft. Sometimes it has been really dangerous, I had to learn to extricate myself from fantasy into reality, sometimes I would take these characters to the street, and blackout or use different people as different means to getting what I want. Being exposed undercover is dangerous. It is also an insanity that I pursue it. It was exciting to fool other people at the time, but this facade bolstered by drinking warps so the mask sticks fast to the features, making it impossible to take off until it is cracked and the inside damaged. So to say, I got burned collecting a lot of interesting material along the way. Now I work my craft at work. I am not a spy or a politician, a soldier or a chef, a criminal or a wannabe anymore. Although in a movie or on stage I can be anyone, at home I am just Tom and I am bit of a softy and left to my own devices a nightmare.
