Acting takes a degree of mutual trust and respect. Tom Hiddleston More Quotes by Tom Hiddleston More Quotes From Tom Hiddleston I think everyone should do what they love because it will never feel like work that way. Tom Hiddleston love-is way thinking Since my education, I've done quite untraditional things. There are very few Etonians who went to Rada. And far fewer Etonians - certainly when I was there - went to Cambridge. I don't know whether it's the same now. Most people I knew went to Oxford, because it seemed more of an easy bridge. Tom Hiddleston bridges oxford people I suppose my understanding of villains is that they're just people who are infected by all of the darker instincts - that they haven't got the discipline to make the right choices. Tom Hiddleston discipline choices people There are certain things in the scripts that need to be planned: you know, big stunt sequences, battle sequences... you can't improvise that stuff. You can improvise when there's just two of you standing in a kitchen and the most dramatic thing that's going to happen is someone's going to open the fridge. Tom Hiddleston kitchen battle two All acting is an act of imagination. You are simply conjuring up imaginary circumstances in your mind and responding truthfully to them. Tom Hiddleston acting imagination mind Joanna points her camera at a section of society unused to having cameras pointed at it. But I don't know about categorising them in terms of class; I'm a bit wary of that. My dad is the son of a shipbuilder. Tom Hiddleston dad class son I don't want to be quoted as 'Tom Hiddleston, psychologist says...' But there is a psychological aspect to being an actor. We are particular students of human nature - not every actor is, of course, but that's what fascinates me about being an actor. Tom Hiddleston actors students want 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 captains play america My favourite pudding is a toss-up between cheesecake - proper, New York cheesecake - and apple crumble and custard. Custard is very important, or dark chocolate mousse. Tea: probably Earl Grey, splash of milk. Tom Hiddleston apples new-york dark With any role, you're extending yourself and acting out things that never happened to you. Tom Hiddleston happened roles acting In the end, you will always kneel. Tom Hiddleston subjugation avengers ends I’d like to fight everybody who wants to make war on people. I’d like to fight bullies, actually. I’d like to stand up to the bullies in this world. I was actually mugged once in London, and I was completely defenseless. They came at me with a… I was held at knifepoint. And I felt so angry that I let them do it and I think I’d like to go back and say ‘Look, it’s okay’, and if they tried to stab me, I could just say ‘You can stop that now’. Tom Hiddleston fighting war thinking It sounds cliched, but superheroes can be lonely, vain, arrogant and proud. Often they overcome these human frailties for the greater good. Tom Hiddleston superhero lonely overcoming The weird thing about serious acting is I've always done impressions of people, all my life, and I did the thing called a balloon debate. The idea is there's a hot air balloon traveling across the Atlantic and it's going down and you have to give a speech as to why you should stay in the balloon. Six people are going to be chucked out and you want to stay. Tom Hiddleston air people ideas The world I've grown into at the moment is becoming increasingly more disturbing and unsettling. Tom Hiddleston becoming moments world Fame is weird and amorphous and unpredictable. Tom Hiddleston unpredictable fame I am so profoundly aware of my lack of skill to make any material difference. I am not a doctor. I can't influence foreign policy. I can't build schools. I can't chemically engineer the protein paste that helps people with acute malnutrition. But I can talk about it, and so can you. Tom Hiddleston doctors skills school 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 villain people looks If you are at a boys' school, especially, there is a level of bravado that you have to keep up otherwise you'll get picked on. Tom Hiddleston levels boys school 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. Tom Hiddleston curiosity joy jobs
