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Tom Hiddleston Quotes

I am desperate to do a comedy now.

– Tom Hiddleston

Joanna points her camera at a section of society unused to having cameras pointed at it. But I don’t know about categorizing them in terms of class; I’m a bit wary of that. My dad is the son of a shipbuilder.

– Tom Hiddleston

Never stop. Never stop fighting. Never stop dreaming.

– Tom Hiddleston

I did a production of ‘Journey’s End,’ an RC Sherriff play about World War I, at the Edinburgh Festival. I was 18 and it was the first time that people I knew and loved and respected came up to me after the show and said, ‘You know, you could really do this if you wanted to.’

– Tom Hiddleston

I was so lucky because what I did in ‘Thor’ was I built the character from the ground up – the foundations of his spirit, really. He was someone who was born with an expectation that he would one day be a king, born with an entitlement.

– Tom Hiddleston

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.

– Tom Hiddleston

With any role, you’re extending yourself and acting out things that never happened to you.

– Tom Hiddleston

In ‘Thor,’ that was my own hair. I grew it out. But I have naturally curly, blonde hair, so I’ll never look like that. By the time I got to ‘The Avengers,’ I had come off two other films, which required me to have it very short. So I dyed it again and it was long enough to use a part of my hairline.

– Tom Hiddleston

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

– Tom Hiddleston

The dream is to keep surprising yourself, never mind the audience.

– Tom Hiddleston

I grew up watching ‘Superman.’ As a child, when I first learned to dive into a swimming pool, I wasn’t diving, I was flying, like Superman. I used to dream of rescuing a girl I had a crush on from a playground bully.

– Tom Hiddleston

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

– Tom Hiddleston

My father and I used to tussle about me becoming an actor. He’s from strong, Presbyterian Scottish working-class stock, and he used to sit me down and say, ‘You know, 99 percent of actors are out of work. You’ve been educated, so why do you want to spend your life pretending to be someone else when you could be your own man?’

– Tom Hiddleston

I thought theater people wouldn’t see me if I hadn’t trained. I didn’t want to just be the Brideshead guy, to spend the rest of my life wearing waistcoats. I got the chance to try everything. Not just Romeos, but pimps and grandfathers and even one role as a woman in a Naomi Wallace play called Slaughter City.

– Tom Hiddleston

When people don’t like themselves very much, they have to make up for it. The classic bully was actually a victim first.

– Tom Hiddleston

Chris Hemsworth is like Christopher Reeve in that he can do two things: he can wear a big red cape without a shred of self-consciousness. But he’s also funny as hell, and he’s so sweet. So with all the fish-out-of-water stuff, he’s so funny. So he does almost two jobs in a way.

– Tom Hiddleston

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

– Tom Hiddleston

For myself, for a long time… maybe I felt inauthentic or something, I felt like my voice wasn’t worth hearing, and I think everyone’s voice is worth hearing. So if you’ve got something to say, say it from the rooftops.

– Tom Hiddleston

Loki in ‘Thor’ is the most incredible springboard into a sort of excavation of the darker aspects of human nature. So that was thrilling, coming back knowing that I’d built the boat and now I could set sail into choppier waters.

– Tom Hiddleston

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

– Tom Hiddleston

Haters never win. I just think that’s true about life, because negative energy always costs in the end.

– Tom Hiddleston

Artists instinctively want to reflect humanity, their own and each other’s, in all its intermittent virtue and vitality, frailty and fallibility.

– Tom Hiddleston

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

– Tom Hiddleston

Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama; fathers and sons, martyred heroes, star-crossed lovers, the deaths of kings – stories that taught us of the danger of hubris and the primacy of humility.

– Tom Hiddleston

I don’t think anyone, until their soul leaves their body, is past the point of no return.

– Tom Hiddleston

If the Loki in ‘Thor’ was about a spiritual confusion – ‘Who am I? How do I belong in this world?’ – the Loki in ‘Avengers’ is, ‘I know exactly who I am, and I’m going to make this world belong to me.’

– Tom Hiddleston