Quotes by Tom Hiddleston

I feel as though the cardboard box of my own reality has been flattened and blown open. Now I can see the edge of the world.

We pull on to the road, where our only company are the wandering cattle, who have become commonplace as traffic lights. Lethargic and listless, they look like theyve been roaming the roads of Guinea since the dawn of time. And no doubt they will continue to long after were gone.

Never stop. Never stop fighting. Never stop dreaming. And dont be afraid of wearing your heart on your sleeve - in declaring the films that you love, the films that you want to make, the life that youve had, and the lives you can help reflect in cinema. For myself, for a long time... maybe I felt inauthentic or something, I felt like my voice wasnt worth hearing, and I think everyones voice is worth hearing. So if youve got something to say, say it from the rooftops.

I think cruelty is just loneliness disguised as bitterness.

I always found the extraordinary loss of life in the First World War very moving. I remember learning about it as a very young child, as an eight- or nine-year-old, asking my teachers what poppies were for. Every year the teachers would suddenly wear these red paper flowers in their lapels, and I would say What does that mean?

I did a production of Journeys 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.

Showing young children in these communities, that there are outlets for their feelings, that there is room in a space for their stories to be told, and that they will be applauded - and its not about ego, its about connection: that their pain is everybody elses pain.

My father and I used to tussle about me becoming an actor. Hes 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. Youve been educated, so why do you want to spend your life pretending to be someone else when you could be your own man?

You look at the greatest villains in human history, the fascists, the autocrats, they all wanted people to kneel before them because they dont love themselves enough.

I thought theater people wouldnt see me if I hadnt trained. I didnt 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.

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 hes also funny as hell, and hes so sweet. So with all the fish-out-of-water stuff, hes so funny. So he does almost two jobs in a way.

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

Joanna points her camera at a section of society unused to having cameras pointed at it. But I dont know about categorizing them in terms of class Im a bit wary of that. My dad is the son of a shipbuilder.

“Actors in any capacity, artists of any stripe, are inspired by their curiosity, by their desire to explore all quarters of life, in light and in dark, and reflect what they find in their work. Artists instinctively want to reflect humanity, their own and each others, in all its intermittent virtue and vitality, frailty and fallibility.”