Matt Hardy came into ROH with open arms. Matt came into ROH ready to learn.
Kasha is the hardy starch of a Slavic winter – buckwheat, in fact – but when cooked properly, it gets a nutty, deep-brown crust.
House Hardy – myself and Brother Nero – are pioneers. My style of booking during early independent bookings was very similar to what ‘Ring of Honor’ later became, which is what WWE later became.
I never saw a Laurel & Hardy movie in a theater when they first ran, when I was a kid. But as a child, I knew who they were, and knew the culture of it, what they meant.
If you come on stage rocking the same LRG shirt and Ed Hardy jeans that two people in the crowd have on, then what makes you different than them?
I like weeds and hardy plants.
I’m a big Tom Hardy fan. He dresses pretty stylish, right?
I love Feist. I love Francoise Hardy. She was a French singer-songwriter in the ’60s who was pretty huge. I think I’m drawn to her sincerity. I love Fiona Apple, too – she’s quirky and really honest in her lyrics.
I could never see Jeff Hardy as a bad guy, because I just want to hug him. He’s an awesome person and super multi-talented.
Laurel and Hardy have this love relationship. Why? This little Englishman screwed Hardy up, physically, every day of his life! Why is he with him the next day? It’s forgiving.
A dream match, for me, would be to bring Brock Lesnar and Paul Heyman to the Hardy compound and face them in the Beastly Deletion.
England opened up the world of literature for me. Not really having a world of my own, I made up for my disinheritance by absorbing the world of others… I loved them: George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Charles Dickens… I adopted them passionately.
I mainly read histories and biographies, but I’m also a big fan of Graham Swift and Thomas Hardy.
Venom’ is a standalone character who has so much attitude, menace and ferocity. He’s also really funny in the comics and in our movie. He’s a really compelling guy that can completely stand on his own. When he’s played by Tom Hardy, and Eddie Brock is his partner, that relationship is enough for one movie.
Laurel and Hardy are among my strongest influences, and I think they’re perfect examples of two naive, kid-like characters that are still funny today. In fact, they’re a lot like SpongeBob and Patrick, walking around in their own little world and causing a fine mess.
When I was a kid, I loved all the silent comedians – Buster Keaton, Laurel and Hardy, Chaplin. And I used to imitate them. I’d go to see a Buster Keaton movie and come home and try things out I’d seen. I learned to do pratfalls when I was very young.
I grew up on Laurel and Hardy. I’m aware from my own experience that comedy has got quite a fierce sell-by date, but that doesn’t seem to apply to them; they made films I can remember laughing at when I was five that I’d still happily watch today.
I enjoyed dancing with the Hardy Boyz back in the day. We did a lot of stuff at the house shows, dancing with Eddy Guerrero, and I think I had Mark Henry dancing as well. Kurt Angle danced. There were a lot of people who enjoyed that part of the magic of Rikishi and Too Cool.
There was a French singer, Francoise Hardy – I used to look at her pictures and try to dress like her.
I suppose you could say my father’s world was Thomas Hardy and my mother’s D.H. Lawrence.
I don’t think Tom Hardy has an actual voice of his own. Except maybe the one in ‘The Dark Knight Rises,’ as Bane.
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