259 Quotes by Tom Hiddleston

Without revealing too much, there’s a specific skill set you need to be in Loki’s army – let me know if you have the qualifications.

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.’

As an actor, it’s much, much easier to be really nasty to someone that you really like.

I don’t think anyone, until their soul leaves their body, is past the point of no return.

I was informed yesterday that there’s a Twitter account for my laugh. Very hard to get used to things like that. Pretty amazing.

Just because you’re good in something doesn’t mean you’ll necessarily be good in something else. You just try and chase opportunities that you fall in love with or that inspire you and keep doing the work.

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.

I don’t think I’ve ever been face to face with pure evil, so I don’t think I’ve ever seen it with my own eyes. But I do understand human frailty and I do understand the capacity of people to be intermittently noble and virtuous and fallible.

I suppose my understanding of villains is that they’re just people who are infected by all of the darker instincts – that they haven’t got the discipline to make the right choices.