Hardy: "I have a very busy head. I have inside voices that I have learned to contain."

Hardy: "I'm very sensitive. Because my mum was my primary emotional caregiver growing up, I found myself being pinned into dresses, darting her dresses, choosing her high heels for the evening or what to wear. I'm very much a mommy's boy."

Hardy: "I hate publicists and publicity. But I love the people."

Hardy: "Fame and stuff like that is all very cool, but at the end of the day, we're all human beings. Although what I do is incredibly surreal and fun and amazing and I'm really grateful for it, I don't believe my own press release, do you know what I mean?"

Hardy: "Maybe it's a little ambitious of me to presume that no matter how big the film is, that I can always go down to the shop to buy a pint of milk."

Hardy: "A lot of people say I seem masculine, but I don't feel it. I feel intrinsically feminine. I'd love to be one of the boys but I always felt a bit on the outside. Maybe my masculine qualities come from overcompensating because I'm not one of the boys."

Hardy: "The lack of carbohydrates can make you a little crazy."

Hardy: "It's about the characters, it's about the film, it's about the process of making stunning visuals and a huge, epic movie. It doesn't matter if my head was covered in a black plastic bag and I was bouncing around in a space hopper: That's the villain of Chris Nolan's 'Batman!'"

Hardy: "There's an abundance of exposure when you start working in American films. Inevitably you become a brand and that has to be controlled."

Hardy: "I'm incredibly grateful to be playing the villain in a world which, if I really thought to hard about what I was doing, I would get very nervous about the size and the magnitude of the importance and responsibility of being a villain in the world of 'Batman.'"

Hardy: "If you look round Hollywood there's no end of white smiles and six packs. Long lines of beautiful people lining up to be incredible on film."

Hardy: "The characters I've played have been mostly violent, and I'm so far from being violent or aggressive. I spend a lot of time watching 'Fireman Sam' with my three-year-old son Louis."