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 HiddlestonThe 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 HiddlestonThe 60s had completely changed how people conceived of their lives and their habits and their identities.
Tom HiddlestonMy 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