Tom Hiddleston Quotes

The hardest thing to do as an actor is to be simplistic, and to just be.

I want to be a great actor someday, and I've decided there's no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.

As actors we're always trying to use our creative imagination.

As an actor, you learn, every time you work.

One of the joys of being an actor is that you're always learning new things. And I've been doing this since I was 19, so there's been a lot of new things I have learned for each part. I always assume that I can do it.

As an actress I really like exploring and doing new experiences.

As an actor, you deal in fantasy, imagination, and concentration. Those are your three weapons. Those are your bullets.

For me, honestly, I'm an actor. There's one thing I know how to do - act. And that's all I know how to do. Through our work, [actors] can trigger awareness.

I have always wanted to do a book about actors because I think that the death of a character is a tremendously emotional experience.

As an actor for hire, my job is to do some pre-production work for myself. Then my job is to show up and give the best performance I can.

It's much easier, for example, to play a heroin addict and you're withdrawing - you tear the ceiling off - that's much easier than it is to come in and say, 'Hello.' Or, 'I love you'. When you judge it in that way, the heavy isn't as difficult.

Working with talented people and challenging myself as an actor [excites me].

The kind of acting that's wholly literary or cerebral is wrong. It's useless for me to have actors so much in their heads that they can't be organic.

As an actor, I need to get excited about something that I can actually relate to.

I didn't want to be a movie star, I wanted to be an actor. Because acting is what I fell in love with, and acting is what is still challenging for me.

When becoming a character, you have to steal. Steal whatever you see. You can even steal from other actors' characterizations; but if you do, only steal from the best.

The same thing I applied to football, I applied to trying to be an actor and hopefully it came off well.

With acting, there are a lot of subtleties and non-verbals involved. If someone is over there, getting eaten by a shark, there's a non-verbal way of how to act that. There's a certain nuance to acting that does not come intuitively to me. It's something I still have to learn.

You have to stay in character in between takes.

He[John Cassavetes] was just being an actor. A very successful actor, especially in live TV. He did many wonderful performances.

I would like to go on that path of evolving into a better actor.

I'm not much of a Method actress, so even though my character in The Ghost Writer was quite dark and bad-tempered, I could only do that if I was seeming quite perky.

The beautiful thing about acting is that you can go your whole life if you stay current and you stay fresh.

I've been given lots of great advice, in my life. As an actor, just being as honest and as present as you can be.

If we are to feel the positive feelings of love, happiness, trust, and gratitude, we periodically also have to feel anger, sadness, fear, and sorrow.