The world I've grown into at the moment is becoming increasingly more disturbing and unsettling. 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-iswaythinking 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 bridgesoxfordpeople 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 disciplinechoicespeople 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 kitchenbattletwo All acting is an act of imagination. You are simply conjuring up imaginary circumstances in your mind and responding truthfully to them. Tom Hiddleston actingimaginationmind 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 dadclassson 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 actorsstudentswant 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 captainsplayamerica 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 applesnew-yorkdark With any role, you're extending yourself and acting out things that never happened to you. Tom Hiddleston happenedrolesacting In the end, you will always kneel. Tom Hiddleston subjugationavengersends 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 fightingwarthinking It sounds cliched, but superheroes can be lonely, vain, arrogant and proud. Often they overcome these human frailties for the greater good. Tom Hiddleston superherolonelyovercoming 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 airpeopleideas Fame is weird and amorphous and unpredictable. Tom Hiddleston unpredictablefame 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 doctorsskillsschool 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 villainpeoplelooks 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 levelsboysschool 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 curiosityjoyjobs 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 eyejobssex
