I always found the extraordinary loss of life in the First World War very moving. I remember learning about it as a very young child, as an eight- or nine-year-old, asking my teachers what poppies were for. Every year the… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
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 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 Image
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 drawn to certain things. I can sometimes feel it when I'm moving away from something that I was once interested in - an idea or an exploration of particular relationships. I go, 'Well, I think I've… — 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 Image
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 Image
“To have compassion for a character is no different from having compassion for another human being.” — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
I think a healthy connection with the natural world actually makes us more human. — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
I gave myself permission to care, because there are a lot of people in this world who are afraid of caring, who are afraid of showing they care because it’s uncool. It’s uncool to have passion. It’s so much easier to lose when you’ve shown everyone how much you don’t care if you win or lose. It’s much harder to… — 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 Image
“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 Image
![“Well, the thing that I suppose is closest to my heart is Shakespeare. I really am a nerd about Shakespeare, I love it [laughs] and the reason why is because he’s one of the wisest, most compassionate writers in the course of Western literature, in the course of all literature. And he understood…” quote by Tom Hiddleston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/104/tom-hiddleston-1633_books_well-the-thing-that-i-suppose-is-closest_177277.jpg)
