With any role, you're extending yourself and acting out things that never happened to you. — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
Acting is a bit like tennis in that you can't really do it on your own. — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
“I love it when you go to see something, and you enter as an individual, and you leave as a group. Because… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
The bit I love is I really love acting, really, and the circus of being a celebrity is something I'm sort of… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
I love the acting community at Cambridge. It's really quite committed and serious, since the days of Derek Jacobi and Ian McKellen… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
All acting is an act of imagination. You are simply conjuring up imaginary circumstances in your mind and responding truthfully to them. — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
Actors in any capacity, artists of any stripe, are inspired by their curiosity, by their desire to explore all quarters of life,… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
The weird thing about serious acting is I've always done impressions of people, all my life, and I did the thing called… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
Everybody is great and the chemistry is different with everyone. That is the joy of acting - you really don't know how… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
“It's taken me a white to get here, but in a way, it feels more pleasing, because I've had periods that haven't… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
“Before I start a film or a play, I try to build a world in my mind. An imaginative world which the… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
“When I’m given a role, the first thing I do is read the play over and over again. I scour the script… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
“My mum always taught me the value of knowing, recognizing and acknowledging when you had a good day. There are so many bad days… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share
I definitely go through periods where I'm in a particular mood, or there's a consistent imaginative context that I feel I'm in, and I'm… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share
We're all intrigued, in our civilized world that we live in, and curious about how we would get on, on an undiscovered island that… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share
Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama; fathers and sons, martyred heroes, star-crossed lovers, the deaths of… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share
“To have compassion for a character is no different from having compassion for another human being.” — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share
I think a healthy connection with the natural world actually makes us more human. — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share
If you look at all of the villains in the course of human history, they've all believed, delusionally, in the virtue of their actions… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share
I don't want to be quoted as 'Tom Hiddleston, psychologist says...' But there is a psychological aspect to being an actor. We are particular… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share
I gave myself permission to care, because there are a lot of people in this world who are afraid of caring, who are afraid… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share
The most interesting thing about being alive is that there is no black and white; there are many shades of gray. — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share
“Well, the thing that I suppose is closest to my heart is Shakespeare. I really am a nerd about Shakespeare, I love it [laughs]… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share
Everybody is great and the chemistry is different with everyone. That is the joy of acting - you really don't know how it is… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share
Truth in drama is elusive. You never quite find it, but the search for it is compulsive. — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share
