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 Id built the boat and now I could set sail into choppier waters. – Tom Hiddleston
If you play it straight its 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
You look at the greatest villains in human history, the fascists, the autocrats, they all wanted people to kneel before them because they dont love themselves enough. – Tom Hiddleston
Chris Hemsworth is like Christopher Reeve in that he can do two things: he can wear a big red cape without a shred of self-consciousness. But hes also funny as hell, and hes so sweet. So with all the fish-out-of-water stuff, hes so funny. So he does almost two jobs in a way. – Tom Hiddleston
If a person is homosexual by nature – that is, if ones sexuality is as intrinsic a part of ones identity as gender or skin color – then society can no more deny a gay person access to the secular rights and religious sacraments because of his homosexuality than it can reinstate Jim Crow. – Jon Meacham
Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and nations, into one great unity, the unity of mankind. Why this has to happen, we do not know; the work of Eros is precisely this. – Sigmund Freud