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 HiddlestonI fundamentally believe that in the moral balance of the human race, we right ourselves. If we feel like the ship's keel is off, we find a way to steer ourselves through the storm repeatedly.
Tom HiddlestonI think there's a part of all of us that wonders how we would survive on an island untouched by Man. Even better, an island untouched by Man and inhabited by King Kong.
Tom HiddlestonIโd like to fight everybody who wants to make war on people. Iโd like to fight bullies, actually. Iโd 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 aโฆ I was held at knifepoint. And I felt so angry that I let them do it and I think Iโd like to go back and say โLook, itโs okayโ, and if they tried to stab me, I could just say โYou can stop that nowโ.
Tom Hiddleston