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
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
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
Since my education, Ive done quite untraditional things. There are very few Etonians who went to Rada. And far fewer Etonians – certainly when I was there – went to Cambridge. I dont know whether its the same now. Most people I knew went to Oxford, because it seemed more of an easy bridge. – Tom Hiddleston