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
Our job is to represent the truth of human nature, whether youre playing a tender love story thats set in a coffee shop or whether youre in The Avengers, which is set in a Manhattan which is exploding. – Tom Hiddleston
It was quite a European war until 1917, when the Americans joined up. They dont have the same sense of the loss of innocence and the cataclysmic loss of life. A whole generation was wiped out. – Tom Hiddleston
I have for some time urged that a nuclear abolition summit to mark the effective end of the nuclear era be convened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 70th anniversary of the bombings of those cities, with the participation of national leaders and representatives of global civil society. – Daisaku Ikeda