Hiddleston: ”If you go through life without connecting to people, how much could you call that a life?”

Hiddleston: "We all have 2 lives, the second begins when you realise you only have 1... I'm not wasting any time. Negativity are clouds that pass in front of the sun... it's temporary. Life is amazing, i just get excited about stuff."

Hiddleston: “We all have a very complex internal world, and not all of that is on display in our external reality.”

Hiddleston: ”Dealing with uncertainty and anxiety, what happens to collective anxiety is it can start to sort of distort reality, and your imagination. If you don’t have all the answer it rushes in to fill the void in. War at the time between science and faith. As a way of trying to explain life, and find meaning in it. And it seemed very romantic.”

Hiddleston: ”I think there are always more stories to tell, there's always more complexity in human life to investigate.”

Hiddleston: ”Every actor in every nation from every background is driven by their own curiosity and their own desire to excavate human nature through the characters they play.”

Hiddleston: "...For me that’s why I’m an actor, is I love studying people."

Hiddleston: ”You just have to imagine that. You have to use your imagination in a greater intensity. It’s like a muscle, your imagination. It just has to work a bit harder.”

Hiddleston: ”I found the argument really interesting. This thing of how do we find meaning in our lives? What do we put at the center of how we find meaning?”

Hiddleston: "For myself, for a long time... maybe I felt inauthentic or something, I felt like my voice wasn't worth hearing, and I think everyone's voice is worth hearing. So if you've got something to say, say it from the rooftops."

Hiddleston: ”I suppose I’m fascinated by the private vulnerability and the exterior of people. I think that’s an essential truth. I sort of quite like trying to find what makes people tick behind the construction of their identity.”

Hiddleston: "The dream is to keep surprising yourself, never mind the audience."

Hiddleston: “I start the day with a run—outside, not in a gym, but just me out there in the elements, with only my own legs to propel me forward … It’s something to do with just being in the world and getting out of my own head.”

Hiddleston: "People are always harking back to an age in the past, which they thought was better, nonsense, the time is now and we should celebrate that."

Hiddleston: “The actors I've always admired have been actors who have followed their instincts and curiosities and led their audiences into new territory. I think that's what's fascinating — people think they have an idea of who an actor is, and then they go off and do something and you go, 'Wow, I never saw that coming.' I think that's exciting.”

Hiddleston: "I'm an eternal realist and the success rate for being an actor is pretty low."

Hiddleston: "Actors do tend to get pigeonholed. People want to know who you are so they can put you in a box. It's lovely to be known for such diametrically opposite roles."

Hiddleston: “Love your life. Because your life is what you have to give.”

Hiddleston: ”I like strong women, my mothers and sisters are very strong women, immensely independent and very capable and that’s what I feel comfortable with.”

Hiddleston: ”The reason I’ve chosen the projects I’ve chosen is to prove to myself and other people that I’m more than that. Perhaps the reason I do what I do is to prove that I’m not who you think I am. And I think part of the pleasure I get from acting is in defying expectations: my own and everyone else’s.”

Hiddleston: “The thing that keeps you grounded is doing the thing you love.”

Hiddleston: ”I think people have certainly made quick judgments which are perhaps not accurate, but then you spend your life trying to prove people wrong – I love doing that.”

Hiddleston: "I don't think anyone, until their soul leaves their body, is past the point of no return."

Hiddleston: "You look at the greatest villains in human history, the fascists, the autocrats, they all wanted people to kneel before them because they don't love themselves enough."

Hiddleston: "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."

Hiddleston: "I literally can't sit down and learn something by words... I have to be on the move.”

Hiddleston: "Never stop. Never stop fighting. Never stop dreaming."

Hiddleston: "When people don't like themselves very much, they have to make up for it. The classic bully was actually a victim first."

Hiddleston: "I think we all see ourselves as the heroes in our own lives."

Hiddleston: "I was so lucky because what I did in 'Thor' was I built the character from the ground up - the foundations of his spirit, really. He was someone who was born with an expectation that he would one day be a king, born with an entitlement."

Hiddleston: “What's my guilty pleasure? The thing is, I never feel guilty about pleasures.”

Hiddleston: "It sounds cliched, but superheroes can be lonely, vain, arrogant and proud. Often they overcome these human frailties for the greater good."

Hiddleston: "Haters never win. I just think that's true about life, because negative energy always costs in the end."

Hiddleston: "I am desperate to do a comedy now."

Hiddleston: "If you are at a boys' school, especially, there is a level of bravado that you have to keep up otherwise you'll get picked on."

Hiddleston: "Our job is to represent the truth of human nature, whether you're playing a tender love story that's set in a coffee shop or whether you're in 'The Avengers,' which is set in a Manhattan which is exploding."

Hiddleston: "I was informed yesterday that there's a Twitter account for my laugh. Very hard to get used to things like that. Pretty amazing."