#to

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. ↗

— Tom Hiddleston

#child #crush #dive #diving #dream

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

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

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

It's like playing tennis, you play a different rally with different people. Every actor is different and the chemistry between actors is different. ↗

— Tom Hiddleston

#between #chemistry #different #different people #every

Loki in 'Thor' is the most incredible springboard into a sort of excavation of the darker aspects of human nature. So that was thrilling, coming back knowing that I'd built the boat and now I could set sail into choppier waters. ↗

— Tom Hiddleston

#back #boat #built #coming #could

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

#actor #becoming #been #could #down

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. ↗

— Tom Hiddleston

#coffee #exploding #human #human nature #job

It is easier to act yourself into a new way of feeling than to feel yourself into a new way of acting. ↗

— Harry Stack Sullivan

#acting #easier #feel #feeling #into

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

— Tom Hiddleston

#embrace #enormous #finally #helped #iron