Quite often, most of us are defined first by our vital statistics - our sex, our height, our weight, the colour of our eyes and then we're defined by our job. Tom Hiddleston More Quotes by Tom Hiddleston More Quotes From Tom Hiddleston I even feel grateful for the failures. Tom Hiddleston grateful feels I'm grateful for people who have believed in me when others might not have. Tom Hiddleston grateful might people I think the early years, the first decade of your life, is the most formative in a way. Tom Hiddleston way years thinking 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. Tom Hiddleston grateful mother father 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 they've been roaming the roads of Guinea since the dawn of time. And no doubt they will continue to long after we're gone. Tom Hiddleston light doubt long 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 journey play war Well, I don't know. When I signed my contract, I signed to play Loki in five more Marvel movies, but they were unspecified. So, if there will be more movies or not remains to be seen, but I like the idea of Loki turning up in the shadows when people least expect him, but you never know these things, the world changes and the things change, but I feel like I know who Loki is, so I wouldn't mind. Tom Hiddleston play people ideas 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 used yesterday laughing I had huge fun with Chris Evans, as Captain America, because super-soldier though he may be, he's still a man, up against a God who in his own mind is infinitely superior. Then, in the ring with The Hulk, we've got this silver tongued, lightening quick mind up against the embodiment of rage..Loki has this mercurial, transformative ability, not just physically but intellectually, so not all the fights are purely physical. Mind games? Maybe. Tom Hiddleston fighting fun men 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 sweet jobs two I'm an eternal realist and the success rate for being an actor is pretty low. Tom Hiddleston realist actors lows Our job is to represent the truth of human nature, whether you're playing a tender love story that's set in a coffee shop or whether you're in 'The Avengers,' which is set in a Manhattan which is exploding. Tom Hiddleston coffee stories jobs Out of 10 how enthusiastic a dancer am I? 11 Tom Hiddleston enthusiastic dancer I am desperate to do a comedy now. Tom Hiddleston desperate comedy Tony Stark in 'Iron Man' helped wider audiences finally embrace the enormous talent of Robert Downey Jr. Tom Hiddleston iron talent men 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 tennis play people 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?' Tom Hiddleston teacher war children It was quite a European war until 1917, when the Americans joined up. They don't have the same sense of the loss of innocence and the cataclysmic loss of life. A whole generation was wiped out. Tom Hiddleston generations loss war What I learned in Guinea is that we are all responsible for the state of our world. The world - and the system by which we trade, share, cooperate and conflict - is clearly not working. We are only as strong as our weakest members. UNICEF is run at every level by strong, relentlessly energetic, deeply capable people who use that strength, energy and capability to help those who need it most: the weakest, most disadvantaged women and children of our world. All I can do now is help make people aware of what is happening, of what they are doing. That is all that I can do. For now. Tom Hiddleston strong running children Having seen what I've seen in South Sudan, there's no way I can't talk about it. Tom Hiddleston sudan south way
