Tom Hiddleston

Every villain is a hero in his own mind.

I try not to make plans. God always laughs at your plans. I__ going to keep the door open, and keep the page blank, and see what gets painted upon it.

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.

Somehow the past is a safe place to explore our collective cultural neuroses.

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

I am an optimist... I choose to be. There is a lot of darkness in our world, there is a lot of pain and you can choose to see that or you can choose to see the joy. If you try to respond positively to the world, you will spend your time better.

I gave myself permission to care, because there are a lot of people in this world who are afraid of caring, who are afraid of showing they care because it__ uncool. It__ uncool to have passion. It__ so much easier to lose when you__e shown everyone how much you don__ care if you win or lose. It__ much harder to lose when you show that you care, but you__l never win unless you also stand to lose. I__e said it before. Don__ be afraid of your passion, give it free reign, and be honest and work hard and it will all turn out just fine.

Love your life. Because your life is what you have to give.

Never stop. Never stop fighting. Never stop dreaming.

Never, ever, let anyone tell you what you can and can't do. Prove the cynics wrong. Pity them for they have no imagination. The sky's the limit. Your sky. Your limit. Now. Let's dance.

Joanna points her camera at a section of society unused to having cameras pointed at it. But I don't know about categorizing them in terms of class I'm a bit wary of that. My dad is the son of a shipbuilder.

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

Chris Hemsworth is like Christopher Reeve in that he can do two things: he can wear a big red cape without a shred of self-consciousness. But he's also funny as hell, and he's so sweet. So with all the fish-out-of-water stuff, he's so funny. So he does almost two jobs in a way.

I thought theater people wouldn't see me if I hadn't trained. I didn't want to just be the Brideshead guy, to spend the rest of my life wearing waistcoats. I got the chance to try everything. Not just Romeos, but pimps and grandfathers and even one role as a woman in a Naomi Wallace play called Slaughter City.

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.

My father and I used to tussle about me becoming an actor. He's from strong, Presbyterian Scottish working-class stock, and he used to sit me down and say, 'You know, 99 percent of actors are out of work. You've been educated, so why do you want to spend your life pretending to be someone else when you could be your own man?'

Never stop. Never stop fighting. Never stop dreaming. And don__ be afraid of wearing your heart on your sleeve - in declaring the films that you love, the films that you want to make, the life that you__e had, and the lives you can help reflect in cinema. For myself, for a long time_ maybe I felt inauthentic or something, I felt like my voice wasn__ worth hearing, and I think everyone__ voice is worth hearing. So if you__e got something to say, say it from the rooftops.

Showing young children in these communities, that there are outlets for their feelings, that there is room in a space for their stories to be told, and that they will be applauded - and it's not about ego, it's about connection: that their pain is everybody else's pain.