Well, I think there are no villains in this world. There are just misunderstood heroes. Tom Hiddleston More Quotes by Tom Hiddleston More Quotes From Tom Hiddleston I love playing all kinds of roles. I hope it doesn’t sound too pretentious, but I always feel human nature is like a piano, and there are 88 keys, and there are some white keys and some black keys, and each character is a different chord on the piano. Basically, I hope that in the course of my life, I will have played all 88 keys. So, I’ll have played heroes and villains and princes and kings and warriors and beggars and thieves and lovers and fathers and wizards and all of those things. That is why I’m an actor… I love studying people. Tom Hiddleston kings hero father The dream is to keep surprising yourself, never mind the audience. Tom Hiddleston audience mind dream Love your life. Because your life is what you have to give. Tom Hiddleston love-your-life life-is giving I believe in the strength and intelligence and sensitivity of women. My mother, my sisters [they] are strong. My mum is a strong woman and I love her for it. Tom Hiddleston mom mother inspiring Make sure you tell the people you love that you love them. Loudly and often. You never know when it might be too late. Tom Hiddleston too-late might people I wonder what the world would be like if everybody walked their talk; if word was married with deed; promises delivered by action. Tom Hiddleston would-be promise world Artists instinctively want to reflect humanity, their own and each other's, in all its intermittent virtue and vitality, frailty and fallibility. Tom Hiddleston vitality artist humanity 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 voice long thinking There’s an Iago and a Romeo within all of us. There is that lover, and there is that sociopath. Tom Hiddleston sociopath lovers The thing that keeps you grounded is doing the thing you love. Tom Hiddleston things-you-love grounded The thing about playing gods, whether you're playing Thor and Loki or Greco Roman gods or Indian gods or characters in any mythology, the reason that gods were invented was because they were basically larger versions of ourselves. Tom Hiddleston roman-gods reason character 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 cities play people Heath Ledger's performance in The Dark Knight quite simply changed the game. He raised the bar not just for actors in superhero films, but young actors everywhere; for me. His performance was dark, anarchic, dizzying, free, and totally, thrillingly, dangerous. Tom Hiddleston knights games dark People love escapism and there should be a place for it. Tom Hiddleston escapism should people 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 strong men father If you get up in the morning and wear a pair of shorts and a t-shirt and some flip-flops, it's a signal that you might be going to the beach. If you get up in the morning and you wear a breast plate and a back plate and a cape and a pair of golden Satanic horns on your head, it's quite clear that you're doing something else. Tom Hiddleston capes morning beach Without revealing too much, there's a specific skill set you need to be in Loki's army - let me know if you have the qualifications. Tom Hiddleston army skills needs Vietnam is absolutely breathtaking. I've never been to that part of the world before and it is an area of such natural beauty. Tom Hiddleston vietnam breathtaking world I think we all see ourselves as the heroes in our own lives. Tom Hiddleston hero thinking 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. Tom Hiddleston boxes reality world