Quote

Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama fathers and sons, martyred heroes, star-crossed lovers, the deaths of kings - stories that taught us of the danger of hubris and the primacy of humility.

Tom Hiddleston

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Tom Hiddleston
Age: 43
Born: 1981
Born: February 9
Actor
Comedian
Film Actor
Film Producer
Musician
Stage Actor
Television Actor
City of Westminster
T Hiddy
Thomas William Hiddleston
Thomas William Tom Hiddleston
Hero
Gods
Crossed
Danger
Lovers
Deaths
Huge
Star
Sons
Dynastic
Century
Ancient
Expanding
Anthropomorphic
Taught
Humility
Societies
Pantheon
Stars
Son
Fathers
Martyred
Father
Drama
Centuries
Primacy
Stories
Kings
Heroes
Hubris

More quotes by Tom Hiddleston

Image
One of my New Year's resolutions was to interact more with people. That sounds quite technical, but literally face time. Not FaceTime, because that's a thing now, but to be in the room with someone. To turn your phone off. To sit and have dinner and just be there with somebody.
Tom Hiddleston
Image
I've always loved King Kong. He's like a modern-day myth, an icon of the cinema.
Tom Hiddleston
Image
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
Image
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
Image
Stay hungry, stay young, stay foolish, stay curious, and above all, stay humble because just when you think you got all the answers, is the moment when some bitter twist of fate in the universe will remind you that you very much don't.
Tom Hiddleston
Image
I never get afraid of things. I only get excited.
Tom Hiddleston
Image
With any role, you're extending yourself and acting out things that never happened to you.
Tom Hiddleston
Image
The bit I love is I really love acting, really, and the circus of being a celebrity is something I'm sort of not interested in. I find it strange.
Tom Hiddleston
Image
If you look at all of the villains in the course of human history, they've all believed, delusionally, in the virtue of their actions - every villain is a hero in his own mind.
Tom Hiddleston
Image
The best revenge against bullies is absolutely, resolutely, never to let them change who you are. Know that whatever bullies say or do - it comes from their weakness, not yours.
Tom Hiddleston
Image
I try not to make plans. God always laughs at your plans.
Tom Hiddleston
Image
In the end, you will always kneel.
Tom Hiddleston
Image
Very honest, I hope. God, I don't know. I hope I'm fun, I hope I am a good time. Spontaneous, surprising, affectionate? I hope, kind. Dancing a lot of dancing. I insist upon dancing. Anywhere. Anytime. The more dancing, the better
Tom Hiddleston
Image
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
Image
I wish I hadn't worked so hard I wish I'd had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me I wish I'd had the courage to express my feelings I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends and I wish I had let myself be happier. It's an extraordinary list of getting in your own way, isn't it?
Tom Hiddleston
Image
I always wanted to see what America was like. I had that curiosity in my 20s when I was working in the theatre here [ in London]... there was the mystery of LA and I wondered what happened over there. I wanted to go and check it out and I'm pleased that I have.
Tom Hiddleston
Image
Actors in any capacity, artists of any stripe, are inspired by their curiosity, by their desire to explore all quarters of life, in light and in dark, and reflect what they find in their work. Artists instinctively want to reflect humanity, their own and each other's, in all its intermittent virtue and vitality, frailty and fallibility.
Tom Hiddleston
Image
I fear looking back and wishing I had done things I hadn't.
Tom Hiddleston
Image
I try not to make plans. God always laughs at your plans. I’m going to keep the door open, and keep the page blank, and see what gets painted upon it.
Tom Hiddleston
Image
Everybody is great and the chemistry is different with everyone. That is the joy of acting - you really don't know how it is going to go until you turn up. It's like playing tennis, you can't plan for the match you are going to play until you are actually up against your opponent and what happens, happens. That is the joy of being on set.
Tom Hiddleston