Tom Hiddleston Quotes

Everywhere there is inequality, everywhere there is division, and I worry about it. I think everybody does.

I’m not a big fan of the class system, to be honest. It feels ugly to me. If you’ve got something to say and the work is good, it doesn’t matter where you come from

There is so much poverty and desperation in South Sudan, and yet each side is militarily equipped.

Do the work, enjoy the work, take it seriously, don't take yourself seriously and keep your head down!

It sounds cliched, but superheroes can be lonely, vain, arrogant and proud. Often they overcome these human frailties for the greater good.

It's a rare thing when you can read a script in one sitting and you haven't looked at the watch or you've gone to make a cup of tea.

Vietnam is absolutely breathtaking. I've never been to that part of the world before and it is an area of such natural beauty.

The bit I love is I really love acting, really, and the circus of being a celebrity is something I'm sort of not interested in. I find it strange.

It's like playing tennis, you play a different rally with different people. Every actor is different and the chemistry between actors is different.

I'm an eternal realist and the success rate for being an actor is pretty low.

You look at the greatest villains in human history, the fascists, the autocrats, they all wanted people to kneel before them because they don't love themselves enough.

I wish we could be decent to each other.

I'm an actor, and part of my joy and my curiosity about the job that I do, is that actors have the privilege of exploring human nature in different ways.

I'd love to see T'he Avengers' with Robert Downey, Jr. playing Loki and Clark Gregg playing 'Thor' and I play Captain America.

The world I've grown into at the moment is becoming increasingly more disturbing and unsettling.

Acting is a bit like tennis in that you can't really do it on your own.

I think cruelty is just loneliness disguised as bitterness.

I wonder what the world would be like if everybody walked their talk; if word was married with deed; promises delivered by action.

You've got to do something, even if it's just to kick-start the day. I use music. And running.

I think we all see ourselves as the heroes in our own lives.

I think everyone should do what they love because it will never feel like work that way.

I personally feel that people feel very reassured by nature because it makes us feel small and that's a good thing for human beings and for society.

The character, as written on the page, is just a blueprint for a human being.

People love escapism and there should be a place for it.

The 60s had completely changed how people conceived of their lives and their habits and their identities.

As a citizen, you have a duty to ask what is true and what is false.

I was informed yesterday that there's a Twitter account for my laugh. Very hard to get used to things like that. Pretty amazing.

Out of 10 how enthusiastic a dancer am I? 11

Fame is weird and amorphous and unpredictable.

I feel so grateful to my mother and father for a happy childhood. There are things I now understand that they were able to give me that are very special.

If you look at all of the villains in the course of human history, they've all believed, delusionally, in the virtue of their actions - every villain is a hero in his own mind.

I'm grateful for people who have believed in me when others might not have.

I think a healthy connection with the natural world actually makes us more human.

I have been allowed to inhabit different shades of human nature and different colours of truth indifferent circumstances.

Whenever I come back to London, which is home, I get that cosy, comfortable feeling of being home, as well as the sophistication of this city.

I've always loved King Kong. He's like a modern-day myth, an icon of the cinema.

I would always play the baddie, incidentally.

Within us there is the capacity of being anyone or anything

I truly think any preparation you do only helps and adds dimension and complexity to the work [as an actor].

Truth in drama is elusive. You never quite find it, but the search for it is compulsive.

Once you've seen certain things, the moral compunction drives you to act.

The learning is the heavy lifting. You need to get the words into your brain.

I've done my share of period stuff. I'm not sure why, but people say I have a period face. The bread and butter of British TV is Jane Austen adaptations and bridges and bonnets and boats and horses.

I fear looking back and wishing I had done things I hadn't.

I even feel grateful for the failures.

You can’t really legislate for the decisions that your heart makes.

The best comedy is always played straight down the middle.

As an actor, it's much, much easier to be really nasty to someone that you really like.

I never get afraid of things. I only get excited.

I think the early years, the first decade of your life, is the most formative in a way.