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
Im an eternal realist and the success rate for being an actor is pretty low. – Tom Hiddleston
I did a production of Journeys End, an RC Sherriff play about World War I, at the Edinburgh Festival. I was 18 and it was the first time that people I knew and loved and respected came up to me after the show and said, You know, you could really do this if you wanted to. – Tom Hiddleston
Some of the greatest actors have turned superheroes into a serious business: Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson in Batman Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart, the first venerable knights of the X-Men, who have now passed the baton to Michael Fassbender and James McAvoy. – Tom Hiddleston