The dream is to keep surprising yourself, never mind the audience.
TOM HIDDLESTON I grew up watching 'Superman.' As a child, when I first learned to dive into a swimming pool...
TOM HIDDLESTON When people don't like themselves very much, they have to make up for it. The classic bully was ...
TOM HIDDLESTON Since my education, I've done quite untraditional things. There are very few Etonians who went t...
TOM HIDDLESTON Joanna points her camera at a section of society unused to having cameras pointed at it. But I don&#...
TOM HIDDLESTON If you are at a boys' school, especially, there is a level of bravado that you have to keep up o...
TOM HIDDLESTON Loki'd!
TOM HIDDLESTON Never stop. Never stop fighting. Never stop dreaming. And don’t be afraid of wearing your heart on...
TOM HIDDLESTON You never know what's around the corner. It could be everything. Or it could be nothing. You keep pu...
TOM HIDDLESTON Haters never win. I just think that's true about life, because negative energy always costs in t...
TOM HIDDLESTON In our increasingly secular society, with so many disparate gods and different faiths, superhero fil...
TOM HIDDLESTON For myself, for a long time... maybe I felt inauthentic or something, I felt like my voice wasn'...
TOM HIDDLESTON Never stop. Never stop fighting. Never stop dreaming.
TOM HIDDLESTON It sounds cliched, but superheroes can be lonely, vain, arrogant and proud. Often they overcome thes...
TOM HIDDLESTON Chris Hemsworth is like Christopher Reeve in that he can do two things: he can wear a big red cape w...
TOM HIDDLESTON I think cruelty is just loneliness disguised as bitterness.
TOM HIDDLESTON It was quite a European war until 1917, when the Americans joined up. They don't have the same s...
TOM HIDDLESTON I've done my share of period stuff. I'm not sure why, but people say I have a period face. T...
TOM HIDDLESTON In 'Thor,' that was my own hair. I grew it out. But I have naturally curly, blonde hair, so ...
TOM HIDDLESTON I'd love to see T'he Avengers' with Robert Downey, Jr. playing Loki and Clark Gregg play...
TOM HIDDLESTON If the Loki in 'Thor' was about a spiritual confusion - 'Who am I? How do I belong in th...
TOM HIDDLESTON Our job is to represent the truth of human nature, whether you're playing a tender love story th...
TOM HIDDLESTON Showing young children in these communities, that there are outlets for their feelings, that there i...
TOM HIDDLESTON Some of the greatest actors have turned superheroes into a serious business: Michael Keaton and Jack...
TOM HIDDLESTON Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic dra...
TOM HIDDLESTON Heath Ledger's performance in 'The Dark Knight' quite simply changed the game. He raised...
TOM HIDDLESTON Real love is strange and unchangeable… but also somewhat constant.
TOM HIDDLESTON Actors do tend to get pigeonholed. People want to know who you are so they can put you in a box. It&...
TOM HIDDLESTON I did a production of 'Journey's End,' an RC Sherriff play about World War I, at the Edi...
TOM HIDDLESTON With any role, you're extending yourself and acting out things that never happened to you.
TOM HIDDLESTON I thought theater people wouldn't see me if I hadn't trained. I didn't want to just be t...
TOM HIDDLESTON Artists instinctively want to reflect humanity, their own and each other's, in all its intermitt...
TOM HIDDLESTON You look at the greatest villains in human history, the fascists, the autocrats, they all wanted peo...
TOM HIDDLESTON Tony Stark in 'Iron Man' helped wider audiences finally embrace the enormous talent of Rober...
TOM HIDDLESTON It’s in our nature to want to watch our human frailties played out on a huge, epic canvas. Ancient...
TOM HIDDLESTON I try not to make plans. God always laughs at your plans. I’m going to keep the door open, and kee...
TOM HIDDLESTON Actors in any capacity, artists of any stripe, are inspired by their curiosity, by their desire to e...
TOM HIDDLESTON Every villian is a hero in his own mind.
TOM HIDDLESTON I always found the extraordinary loss of life in the First World War very moving. I remember learnin...
TOM HIDDLESTON We pull on to the road, where our only company are the wandering cattle, who have become commonplace...
TOM HIDDLESTON I feel as though the cardboard box of my own reality has been flattened and blown open. Now I can se...
TOM HIDDLESTON What was your first job title?
Waiter. It was at a showy opera festival in a barn in Oxf...
TOM HIDDLESTON Doing good in this world, and being kind and being honest and noble is really underrated. And I thin...
TOM HIDDLESTON My father and I used to tussle about me becoming an actor. He's from strong, Presbyterian Scotti...
TOM HIDDLESTON I am an optimist... I choose to be. There is a lot of darkness in our world, there is a lot of pain ...
TOM HIDDLESTON Never, ever, let anyone tell you what you can and can't do. Prove the cynics wrong. Pity them for th...
TOM HIDDLESTON If I lived forever, who knows what I would do?" he continues. "I would certainly get better at the p...
TOM HIDDLESTON I guess when you smile, it's just joy coming out of you.
TOM HIDDLESTON It's like playing tennis, you play a different rally with different people. Every actor is diffe...
TOM HIDDLESTON If you play it straight it's funny - the best comedy is always played straight down the middle. ...
TOM HIDDLESTON The grey area between right and wrong is something that appeals to a very contemporary sensitivity.
TOM HIDDLESTON The thing that keeps you grounded is doing the thing you love.
TOM HIDDLESTON I love it when you go to see something, and you enter as an individual, and you leave as a group. Be...
TOM HIDDLESTON Before I start a film or a play, I try to build a world in my mind. An imaginative world which the c...
TOM HIDDLESTON Everythings a choice. Nobody's born good. Nobody's born evil. It's always a choice.
TOM HIDDLESTON The thing about playing gods, whether you're playing Thor and Loki or Greco Roman gods or Indian...
TOM HIDDLESTON I was so lucky because what I did in 'Thor' was I built the character from the ground up - t...
TOM HIDDLESTON Loki in 'Thor' is the most incredible springboard into a sort of excavation of the darker as...
TOM HIDDLESTON I'm an eternal realist and the success rate for being an actor is pretty low.
TOM HIDDLESTON I am desperate to do a comedy now.
TOM HIDDLESTON I never like to make plans. It's nice to just hang.
TOM HIDDLESTON I think we all see ourselves as the heroes in our own lives.
TOM HIDDLESTON I don't think anyone, until their soul leaves their body, is past the point of no return
TOM HIDDLESTON Make sure you tell the people you love that you love them. Loudly and often. You never know when it ...
TOM HIDDLESTON There are a lot of people in this world who are afraid of caring or afraid of showing that they care...
TOM HIDDLESTON When I’m given a role, the first thing I do is read the play over and over again. I scour the scri...
TOM HIDDLESTON It's taken me a white to get here, but in a way, it feels more pleasing, because I've had periods th...
TOM HIDDLESTON I’ve had to work hard for a lot of things in my life. I remember being told I probably wouldn’t ...
TOM HIDDLESTON It’s really fun when people recognize you in a passionate way.
TOM HIDDLESTON Well, the thing that I suppose is closest to my heart is Shakespeare. I really am a nerd about Shake...
TOM HIDDLESTON I believe very strongly in kindness, in good manners, in treating people with equanimity and a sense...
TOM HIDDLESTON This generation has lost the true meaning of romance. There are so many songs that disrespect women....
TOM HIDDLESTON When I fall in love with someone, then that doesn’t “just” happen… When I love someone’s c...
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TOM HIDDLESTON People love escapism and there should be a place for it.
TOM HIDDLESTON For myself, for a long time... maybe I felt inauthentic or something, I felt like my voice wasn't wo...
TOM HIDDLESTON Both destiny and free will exist simultaneously. You are destined to be given some opportunities but...
TOM TOM During times of hardship people find happiness in simplest pleasures
TOM TOM Am I good enough?
Trust.
TOM The demons you have are what motivate you to make your art. This is what drives the detective, this ...
TOM REISS Really, coaching is simplicity. It's getting players to play better than they think that they ca...
TOM LANDRY There's this misconception that the Navy is this cruise ship, and you get to go out and sail aro...
TOM HANKS Talk is over-rated as a means of settling disputes.
TOM CRUISE Nothing ends nicely, that's why it ends.
TOM CRUISE Have you ever gotten the feeling that you aren't completely embarassed yet, but you glimpse tomo...
TOM CRUISE When I first started out all the attention could be a bit unnerving, especially when people stared. ...
TOM CRUISE I've spent many birthdays on a movie set, all great days.
TOM CRUISE I've always had the same values. Family for me has always been important. When I shoot, everybod...
TOM CRUISE When I'm promoting a film, I'm not going to get caught up in anything else, and that include...
TOM CRUISE Whether it's making a film or raising my children, personally I'm striving to do the right t...
TOM CRUISE I like to work with people that I like hanging out with, that I admire, that are really smart and ta...
TOM CRUISE If I don't talk about my religion, if I say I'm not discussing it or different humanitarian ...
TOM CRUISE Saddam has committed many crimes against humanity and against his own people.
TOM CRUISE What I find sometimes that is tricky is if actors are using too much of their own life in a picture,...
TOM CRUISE I'm always around my mother and sisters. I always wanted to be a father, a husband.
TOM CRUISE As a young actor, people were trying to define who I was before I really knew that for myself. But I...
TOM CRUISE The thing about film-making is I give it everything, that's why I work so hard. I always tell yo...
TOM CRUISE The exciting part of acting, I don't know how else to explain it, are those moments when you sur...
TOM CRUISE I've never made a film that I didn't believe in, you know? However the picture turns out, I&...
TOM CRUISE I didn't become an actor to have power, but it just happens that I have it and so I have a lot o...
TOM CRUISE I've never done work for money ever. If your choices are based on grosses and the film doesn'...
TOM CRUISE Do I make mistakes? Yeah.
TOM CRUISE I've learned to relax more. Everybody feels pressure in what they do, maybe mine is just a littl...
TOM CRUISE I go without sleep, I just go hard.
TOM CRUISE When you have to cope with a lot of problems, you're either going to sink or you're going to...
TOM CRUISE Football is unconditional love.
TOM BRADY My favorite meal has always been fried chicken.
TOM WATSON Eighteenth-century doctors prescribed sugar pills for nearly everything: heart problems, headache, c...
TOM REISS Treat everyone with respect and kindness. Period. No exceptions.
KIANA TOM Good things, when short, are twice as good.
TOM STOPPARD Time is short, life is short, there's a lot to know. So I skip the entertainers in the newspaper...
TOM STOPPARD The thing that happens remarkably often is that the people who are writing a dissertation believe th...
TOM STOPPARD I'm offended by things and take pathetic little stands against them.
TOM STOPPARD My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.
TOM STOPPARD The text loses its virginity simply by being staged: it's no longer the abstract ideal version; ...
TOM STOPPARD I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones...
TOM STOPPARD Any revival in which I am involved is liable to change.
TOM STOPPARD Hotel rooms inhabit a separate moral universe.
TOM STOPPARD All your life, you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye. An...
TOM STOPPARD Theatre is a series of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster.
TOM STOPPARD The whole philosophy of modern times is to dissolve distinctions between individuals and deal with t...
TOM STOPPARD For me, human rights simply endorse a view of life and a set of moral values that are perfectly clea...
TOM STOPPARD Every exit is an entry somewhere else.
TOM STOPPARD Procrastination is probably my worst habit out of many. Especially when it comes to paperwork.
TOM CONTI I love what I do. I take great pride in what I do. And I can't do something halfway, three-quart...
TOM CRUISE Mentally, the only players who survive in the pros are the ones able to manage all their responsibil...
TOM BRADY Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day - it all...
TOM BRADY Every man should know, if you're comfortable and you like it, you should do it. Everyone always ...
TOM BRADY The only thing I ever wanted to be was a professional football player.
TOM BRADY I'm never going to be fast, and nobody will ever mistake me for being fast.
TOM BRADY So many guys are so conservative with their hair, and I always joke with all my buddies when they me...
TOM BRADY If I have something to say, I want it to be meaningful.
TOM BRADY My job is to play quarterback, and I'm going to do that the best way I know how, because I owe t...
TOM BRADY There's not much time to unwind, but you know what, it's because I love what I do. I look fo...
TOM BRADY I think the great part about what I do is that there's a scoreboard. At the end of every week, y...
TOM BRADY I don't think any country is perfect. It's our responsibility to do the best we can do to ch...
TOM BRADY You have to believe in your process. You have to believe in the things that you are doing to help th...
TOM BRADY The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.
TOM BRADY When you're one of the leaders of the team, there are no days off.
TOM BRADY I was the kid that was the 199th pick that never had the body for it. People didn't think I'...
TOM BRADY Geometric shapes hold an energy pattern, and scientists did some experiments which say certain geome...
TOM DELONGE I just love working hard. I love being part of a team; I love working toward a common goal.
TOM BRADY What the United States needs to do at this point is reaffirm our commitment that Assad must go and t...
TOM COTTON So rather than face the bitter truth, China has placed severe restrictions on the Internet and enlis...
TOM LANTOS I think these movies are definitely comedies. It's quite difficult to take a superhero movie ser...
TOM HOLLAND Every chef has his treats. By that, I mean bits and pieces from things you're working on - crust...
TOM DOUGLAS I've gotten very good at scheduling my life, scheduling the scene and preparing myself for knowi...
TOM CRUISE Songs really are like a form of time travel because they really have moved forward in a bubble. Ever...
TOM WAITS Catfish has a nice firm texture and mild flavor.
TOM DOUGLAS You have to enable and empower people to make decisions independent of you. As I've learned, eac...
TOM RIDGE America's health care system is in crisis precisely because we systematically neglect wellness a...
TOM HARKIN My wife and I decided to try and kick start our kitchens to a $15 minimum wage for cooks. I've p...
TOM DOUGLAS I think we're very uptight in America. You have to remember that we're descended from Purita...
TOM FORD Everybody has something that chews them up and, for me, that thing was always loneliness. The cinema...
TOM HANKS I have a weakness for watches. I have to stop myself buying more.
TOM JONES We are set to make very bad history.
TOM WILSON These days an income is something you can't live without - or within.
TOM WILSON If I had a nickel for every time I said 'Why me?' I'd have probably said 'Why me?...
TOM WILSON What this country needs is a credit card for charging things to experience.
TOM WILSON The waist is a terrible thing to mind.
TOM WILSON Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
TOM WILSON If you spend all of your time racing ahead to the future, you're liable to discover you've l...
TOM WILSON Many of us are more capable than some of us... but none of us is as capable as all of us!
TOM WILSON Happiness doesn't depend on how much you have to enjoy, but how much you enjoy what you have.
TOM WILSON There's no future in spending our present worrying about our past.
TOM WILSON Nobody got where they are today by living for tomorrow.
TOM WILSON About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation.
TOM WILSON If I ever had an out-of-body experience - I'd try to come back to a different one.
TOM WILSON I wouldn't mind the rat race - if the rats would lose once in a while.
TOM WILSON Mondays are the potholes in the road of life.
TOM WILSON A smile is a facelift that's in everyone's price range!
TOM WILSON Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live.
TOM WOLFE It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.
TOM STOPPARD Miami is a melting pot in which none of the stones melt. They rattle around.
TOM WOLFE Stem cell research holds out the promise of finding cures and treatments for a wide range of disease...
TOM ALLEN Some people are cowards... I think by and large a third of people are villains, a third are cowards,...
TOM HANKS Obviously, you would give your life for your children, or give them the last biscuit on the plate. B...
TOM STOPPARD Everybody who is anyone wanted to meet a real life gangster, and here's Joey Gallo hitting the s...
TOM FOLSOM The secret to winning is constant, consistent management.
TOM LANDRY From as long as, literally as far back as I can remember I've liked puns, word jokes, I can lite...
TOM STOPPARD No other game combines the wonder of nature with the discipline of sport in such carefully planned w...
TOM WATSON Golf is a game of ego, but it is also a game of integrity: the most important thing is you do what i...
TOM WATSON Music is probably the only real magic I have encountered in my life. There's not some trick invo...
TOM PETTY I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term w...
TOM STOPPARD Be prepared, and be careful not to do your good deeds when there's no one watching you.
TOM LEHRER I understand the concept of optimism. But I think with me what you get is a lack of cynicism.
TOM HANKS Don't you know there ain't no devil, it's just god when he's drunk.
TOM WAITS A great production of a black comedy is better than a mediocre production of a comedy of errors.
TOM STOPPARD I have spoken to Donald Trump about this. He understands the dramatic budget cuts our military has f...
TOM COTTON When I was 20, in 1957, and maybe you would say I was old enough to know better, but nevertheless, I...
TOM STOPPARD We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.
TOM STOPPARD The notion that the 'leader' has the right to ask huge sacrifices of your generation for a n...
TOM STOPPARD The dominant male is history. Could you see a male Lady Gaga? The closest we've got is Justin Bi...
TOM ODELL After the first day of practice, there's not one guy who's playing at 100 percent or who fee...
TOM BRADY There were no mail-order catalogues in 1492. Marco Polo's journal was the wish book of Renaissance E...
TOM ROBBINS I was bullied every day at school because I carried a briefcase. I could have left it at home. But I...
TOM FORD When I was a reporter in Bristol, which I was between the years 1954 and 1960, the newspaper would g...
TOM STOPPARD In January 1962, when I was the author of one and a half unperformed plays, I attended a student pro...
TOM STOPPARD In his first year in office, President Obama pulled us back from the brink of the greatest economic ...
TOM VILSACK