Tom Hiddleston Quotes

I always want to surprise myself, more than anybody else.

I just try to do things that make me excited. If I can find a way to surprise myself, then that's when I'm really excited to share something and really can stand behind it.

I mean, what do you think creativity is? Nothing but self-indulgence. And the more self-indulgent it is, the more interesting it becomes. So I think that part of creativity is also falling in love with your own narcissism: accepting it, using it as an asset.

I have learned so much about myself. I have re-discovered that little boy who had the hunger to create, which I think I had lost.

I love how people in this business push themselves to know themselves, the world, and their creativity better.

The problem as you get older... is that you become more self-aware. At the same time, you have to surprise yourself. There's no way of arranging the surprise, so it is tricky.

I care about being creative and expressing myself.

When you can surprise yourself, you're truly acting.

One of the most important reasons for living is to do something - live outside of yourself and put together an idea, an idea that you want to explore and then complete... Awaken your creative sensitivities!

To create something you must be something.

The stage sharpened my creative instrument and encouraged me to go deeper and try new things.

A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.

When you are pushing yourself to not go back to the same well, you're gonna come up with something different, or you'll find songs that are different.

Life is the most versatile thing under the sun; and in the pursuit of life and character the author who works in a groove works in blinkers.

You have to create a track record of breaking your own mold, or at least other people's idea of that mold.

I think you're always trying to challenge yourself to do new things and not repeat yourself.

I always try to put myself in the way of surprise as much as possible. My ambition is to keep challenging myself. I like that journey of discovery.

And doing so you can recreate yourself and you can also come up with something that is not only original and creative and artistic, but also maybe even decent, or moral if I can use words like that, or something that's like basically good.

I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.

The story of 'Lasers' is my story. I didn't have to look too far to get subject matter for this record; it was stuff that was happening to me.

The new idea for me now is creativity. I like to express myself.

I can't imagine not being in a phase where I'm trying to understand something or create something. That's the essence of life.

The part of the process that's exciting to me is feeling like I'm in a place I've never been before, in every way. Without that, I don't know if I'd be a writer.

I think you should experience life before you can recreate it.

With beauty, I think one never finishes it. I'm always exploring. I like the concept of change.