Top 100 Tom Hiddleston Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Fame is weird and amorphous and unpredictable.”

— Tom Hiddleston

52. “It’s always about, somehow, finding a part of myself that is relevant, and then turning the volume up on that particular part. So, I am all of the characters I’ve ever played, and I am none of them at the same time.”

— Tom Hiddleston

53. “One of the great flaws that we all share is that we think everyone else is cooler, everyone else is sexier; everyone else has all the answers. That was me too.”

— Tom Hiddleston

54. “An ant has no quarrel with a boot.”

— Tom Hiddleston

55. “Whenever I come back to London, which is home, I get that cosy, comfortable feeling of being home, as well as the sophistication of this city.”

— Tom Hiddleston

56. “Tony Stark in ‘Iron Man’ helped wider audiences finally embrace the enormous talent of Robert Downey Jr.”

— Tom Hiddleston

57. “The thing about playing gods, whether you’re playing Thor and Loki or Greco Roman gods or Indian gods or characters in any mythology, the reason that gods were invented was because they were basically larger versions of ourselves.”

— Tom Hiddleston

58. “I feel as though the cardboard box of my own reality has been flattened and blown open. Now I can see the edge of the world.”

— Tom Hiddleston

59. “Out of 10 how enthusiastic a dancer am I? 11.”

— Tom Hiddleston

60. “When people don’t like themselves very much, they have to make up for it. The classic bully was actually a victim first.”

— Tom Hiddleston

61. “It sounds cliched, but superheroes can be lonely, vain, arrogant and proud. Often they overcome these human frailties for the greater good.”

— Tom Hiddleston

62. “People love escapism and there should be a place for it.”

— Tom Hiddleston

63. “If you play it straight it’s funny – the best comedy is always played straight down the middle. The adjustment is understanding from the screenplay that a moment is hilarious.”

— Tom Hiddleston

64. “Somehow the past is a safe place to explore our collective cultural neuroses.”

— Tom Hiddleston

65. “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

66. “I have been allowed to inhabit different shades of human nature and different colours of truth indifferent circumstances.”

— Tom Hiddleston

67. “All acting is an act of imagination. You are simply conjuring up imaginary circumstances in your mind and responding truthfully to them.”

— Tom Hiddleston

68. “We’re travelling through space and time, we’re dealing with gods and monsters, but at the heart of the film, from my perspective, is a family – a father, two sons, two brothers, a mother and the fractious, intimate interaction that they have.”

— Tom Hiddleston

69. “I’m not a big fan of the class system, to be honest. It feels ugly to me. If you’ve got something to say and the work is good, it doesn’t matter where you come from.”

— Tom Hiddleston

70. “It’s a rare thing when you can read a script in one sitting and you haven’t looked at the watch or you’ve gone to make a cup of tea.”

— Tom Hiddleston

71. “I would always play the baddie, incidentally.”

— Tom Hiddleston

72. “The language of digital communication is a language we don’t understand in a way. People say the internet is like the Wild West in that it’s lawless and we haven’t worked out how to make it structured or moral.”

— Tom Hiddleston

73. “The Night Manager doesn’t exist in the post-Cold war universe, it exists much more in the modern world, I think. There is more action. The bad guys don’t have particularly political or national-political affiliations.”

— Tom Hiddleston

74. “It is so rare as an actor to be allowed the chance to revisit a role and to go back to a character that you already built, and lived inside, and understood. To take it further to another stage is a huge privilege.”

— Tom Hiddleston

75. “I fundamentally believe that in the moral balance of the human race, we right ourselves. If we feel like the ship’s keel is off, we find a way to steer ourselves through the storm repeatedly.”

— Tom Hiddleston

76. “Quite often, most of us are defined first by our vital statistics – our sex, our height, our weight, the colour of our eyes and then we’re defined by our job.”

— Tom Hiddleston

77. “America and Europe are so different in the way they conceive of themselves and art and cinema.”

— Tom Hiddleston

78. “Artists instinctively want to reflect humanity, their own and each other’s, in all its intermittent virtue and vitality, frailty and fallibility.”

— Tom Hiddleston

79. “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

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

— Tom Hiddleston

81. “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.”

— Tom Hiddleston

82. “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

83. “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

84. “I think cruelty is just loneliness disguised as bitterness.”

— Tom Hiddleston

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

— Tom Hiddleston

86. “Don’t be afraid of your passion. Like, just give it free rein. And be honest, and work hard. And it’ll all turn out just fine.”

— Tom Hiddleston

87. “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.”

— Tom Hiddleston

88. “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

89. “I’m an eternal realist and the success rate for being an actor is pretty low.”

— Tom Hiddleston

90. “I am desperate to do a comedy now.”

— Tom Hiddleston

91. “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

92. “With any role, you’re extending yourself and acting out things that never happened to you.”

— Tom Hiddleston

93. “Acting is a bit like tennis in that you can’t really do it on your own.”

— Tom Hiddleston

94. “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

95. “The best comedy is always played straight down the middle.”

— Tom Hiddleston

96. “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

97. “At Christmas, individuals are apportioned their roles in the family script – you’re either the funny one or the sensitive one; or you either do the cooking or the washing up. And those roles aren’t easy to change.”

— Tom Hiddleston

98. “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

99. “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

100. “I’m an actor, and part of my joy and my curiosity about the job that I do, is that actors have the privilege of exploring human nature in different ways.”

— Tom Hiddleston