Tom Hiddleston Quotes

I try not to make plans. God always laughs at your plans. I’m going to keep the door open, and keep the page blank, and see what gets painted upon it.

Make sure you tell the people you love that you love them. Loudly and often. You never know when it might be too late.

Everythings a choice. Nobody's born good. Nobody's born evil. It's always a choice.

Having seen what I've seen in South Sudan, there's no way I can't talk about it.

The dream is to keep surprising yourself, never mind the audience.

You never know what's around the corner. It could be everything. Or it could be nothing. You keep putting one foot in front of the other, and then one day you look back and you've climbed a mountain.

True love is an acceptance of someone else for who they are.

There is so much poverty and desperation in South Sudan, and yet each side is militarily equipped.

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

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.

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.

The best comedy is always played straight down the middle.

I grew up watching 'Superman.' As a child, when I first learned to dive into a swimming pool, I wasn't diving, I was flying, like Superman. I used to dream of rescuing a girl I had a crush on from a playground bully.

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.

What le Carré is so good at is unpicking something very specific about Englishness. That is almost part of why I think he wrote the novel. You can feel le Carré's anger that someone who has had the benefits of an English education and an English upbringing is using that privilege to basically do the worst things imaginable. There is an anger in the book about that.

The language of digital communication is a language we don't understand in a way. People say the internet is like the Wild West in that it's lawless and we haven't worked out how to make it structured or moral.

My instinct is to keep people guessing. I think as an actor your greatest strength is your versatility, I suppose. The blanker the canvas, the easier it is to project the illusion of a character onto it. I think there are many actors who do that very successfully.

The difference between a hero and a villain is that they just make different choices.

I have a little office in my house and it is an absolute pigsty but I know exactly where everything is and there are little things stuck all over the walls, and papers in in-trays and files I have saved on my computer and playlists I have made on my iTunes - things that take me to a place that I think is appropriate.

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.

Tony Stark in 'Iron Man' helped wider audiences finally embrace the enormous talent of Robert Downey Jr.

I'm grateful for people who have believed in me when others might not have.

We all have two lives. The second one starts when we realize that we only have one

The world I've grown into at the moment is becoming increasingly more disturbing and unsettling.

The 60s had completely changed how people conceived of their lives and their habits and their identities.

What is the best use of my time on this planet?

The character, as written on the page, is just a blueprint for a human being.

I truly think any preparation you do only helps and adds dimension and complexity to the work [as an actor].

We are what the past has made us. We are what the future will make us. Live now. Right now.

The Night Manager doesn't exist in the post-Cold war universe, it exists much more in the modern world, I think. There is more action. The bad guys don't have particularly political or national-political affiliations.

As a citizen, you have a duty to ask what is true and what is false.

I would always play the baddie, incidentally.

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.

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.

I don't think anyone, until their soul leaves their body, is past the point of no return.

I wish we could be decent to each other.

I love the acting community at Cambridge. It's really quite committed and serious, since the days of Derek Jacobi and Ian McKellen right through to Emma Thompson and Hugh Laurie.

Truth in drama is elusive. You never quite find it, but the search for it is compulsive.

I try not to make plans. God always laughs at your plans.

We're all intrigued, in our civilized world that we live in, and curious about how we would get on, on an undiscovered island that is untouched by man.

Never stop. Never stop fighting. Never stop dreaming. And don’t 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 you’ve 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 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.

The most interesting thing about being alive is that there is no black and white; there are many shades of gray.

I definitely go through periods where I'm in a particular mood, or there's a consistent imaginative context that I feel I'm in, and I'm drawn to certain things. I can sometimes feel it when I'm moving away from something that I was once interested in - an idea or an exploration of particular relationships. I go, 'Well, I think I've done that and I don't want to do it again.'

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.

I always thought of running as just dancing forward.

South Sudan is the youngest nation on the planet.

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.

Nurture your own confidence and make it real; don't pretend to be someone you're not.