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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

#bar #changed #dangerous #dark #dizzying

I think we all see ourselves as the heroes in our own lives. ↗

— Tom Hiddleston

#i #i think #lives #our #ourselves

In our increasingly secular society, with so many disparate gods and different faiths, superhero films present a unique canvas upon which our shared hopes, dreams and apocalyptic nightmares can be projected and played out. ↗

— Tom Hiddleston

#different #different faiths #disparate #dreams #faiths

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

#any #basically #because #characters #gods

With any role, you're extending yourself and acting out things that never happened to you. ↗

— Tom Hiddleston

#any #extending #happened #never #out

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

#before #enough #fascists #greatest #history

Actors do tend to get pigeonholed. People want to know who you are so they can put you in a box. It's lovely to be known for such diametrically opposite roles. ↗

— Tom Hiddleston

#diametrically #get #know #known #lovely

Artists instinctively want to reflect humanity, their own and each other's, in all its intermittent virtue and vitality, frailty and fallibility. ↗

— Tom Hiddleston

#each #fallibility #frailty #humanity #instinctively

I enjoy seeing young people being interested in what they can do. ↗

— Billy Higgins

#enjoy #i #interested #people #seeing

If an individual wants to be a leader and isn't controversial, that means he never stood for anything. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#controversial #individual #leader #means #never