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" With any role, you're extending yourself and acting out things that never happened to you. "
Tom Hiddleston
Things
Acting
Yourself
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" The dream is to keep surprising yourself, never mind the audience. "
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" I did a production of 'Journey's End,' an RC Sherriff play about World War I, at the Edinburgh Festival. I was 18 and it was the first time that people I knew and loved and respected came up to me after the show and said, 'You know, you could really do this if you wanted to.' "
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War
World
Journey
" If the Loki in 'Thor' was about a spiritual confusion - 'Who am I? How do I belong in this world?' - the Loki in 'Avengers' is, 'I know exactly who I am, and I'm going to make this world belong to me.' "
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Me
Know
I Am
" I think we all see ourselves as the heroes in our own lives. "
Tom Hiddleston
Heroes
I Think
Our
" Joanna points her camera at a section of society unused to having cameras pointed at it. But I don't know about categorizing them in terms of class; I'm a bit wary of that. My dad is the son of a shipbuilder. "
Tom Hiddleston
Son
Her
Society
" 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. "
Tom Hiddleston
Right
Community
Acting
" 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
Canvas
Dreams
Present
" Artists instinctively want to reflect humanity, their own and each other's, in all its intermittent virtue and vitality, frailty and fallibility. "
Tom Hiddleston
Own
Reflect
Virtue
" It sounds cliched, but superheroes can be lonely, vain, arrogant and proud. Often they overcome these human frailties for the greater good. "
Tom Hiddleston
Overcome
Good
Lonely
" I was so lucky because what I did in 'Thor' was I built the character from the ground up - the foundations of his spirit, really. He was someone who was born with an expectation that he would one day be a king, born with an entitlement. "
Tom Hiddleston
Born
Spirit
King
" Haters never win. I just think that's true about life, because negative energy always costs in the end. "
Tom Hiddleston
Life
Negative
Win
" I don't think anyone, until their soul leaves their body, is past the point of no return. "
Tom Hiddleston
Think
Soul
Return
" 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
Nature
Story
Truth
" 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
Swimming
Dream
Child
" Since my education, I've done quite untraditional things. There are very few Etonians who went to Rada. And far fewer Etonians - certainly when I was there - went to Cambridge. I don't know whether it's the same now. Most people I knew went to Oxford, because it seemed more of an easy bridge. "
Tom Hiddleston
Know
People
Easy
" I'd love to see T'he Avengers' with Robert Downey, Jr. playing Loki and Clark Gregg playing 'Thor' and I play Captain America. "
Tom Hiddleston
Thor
America
Captain
" Tony Stark in 'Iron Man' helped wider audiences finally embrace the enormous talent of Robert Downey Jr. "
Tom Hiddleston
Finally
Embrace
Talent
" Chris Hemsworth is like Christopher Reeve in that he can do two things: he can wear a big red cape without a shred of self-consciousness. But he's also funny as hell, and he's so sweet. So with all the fish-out-of-water stuff, he's so funny. So he does almost two jobs in a way. "
Tom Hiddleston
Funny
Sweet
Hell
" 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. "
Tom Hiddleston
You
Get
Keep
" 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
Nature
Boat
Back
" I've done my share of period stuff. I'm not sure why, but people say I have a period face. The bread and butter of British TV is Jane Austen adaptations and bridges and bonnets and boats and horses. "
Tom Hiddleston
Say
Bridges
Bread
" 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
Tennis
Chemistry
You
" 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
Performance
Dark
Free
" 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. "
Tom Hiddleston
Innocence
Generation
War
" In 'Thor,' that was my own hair. I grew it out. But I have naturally curly, blonde hair, so I'll never look like that. By the time I got to 'The Avengers,' I had come off two other films, which required me to have it very short. So I dyed it again and it was long enough to use a part of my hairline. "
Tom Hiddleston
Time
Hair
Long
" I never like to make plans. It's nice to just hang. "
Tom Hiddleston
Nice
Never
Like
" I thought theater people wouldn't see me if I hadn't trained. I didn't want to just be the Brideshead guy, to spend the rest of my life wearing waistcoats. I got the chance to try everything. Not just Romeos, but pimps and grandfathers and even one role as a woman in a Naomi Wallace play called Slaughter City. "
Tom Hiddleston
Woman
My Life
Me
" I am desperate to do a comedy now. "
Tom Hiddleston
Now
Comedy
I Am
" I was informed yesterday that there's a Twitter account for my laugh. Very hard to get used to things like that. Pretty amazing. "
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Hard
Yesterday
Pretty
" Never stop. Never stop fighting. Never stop dreaming. "
Tom Hiddleston
Never Stop
Never
Fighting