Tom Ellis Quotes

I'm drawn to emotionally damaged characters because there is more to unlock.

Loki in 'Thor' is the most incredible springboard into a sort of excavation of the darker aspects of human nature. So that was thrilling, coming back knowing that I'd built the boat and now I could set sail into choppier waters.

Things are never simple when it comes to the human heart.

I am constantly interested in people who society calls 'bad' because I don't like to just buy into something that everybody's going to say. I want to investigate that for myself. With a character, you get to fully investigate that emotionally and understand the parts of them that are in pain and scared and are good. That's human.

I never want to hurt no one to the point so they can't go back to their children.

For each character, I try to understand what is driving them.

You walked in, laughing, tears welling confused, mingling in your throat. How can you be so many women to so many people, oh you strange girl?

I think it's increasingly hard to have deep self-knowledge without entering the darkness in some way.

Love conquers all - love is the grace that transcends any kind of injustice in the end.

I think all the boys that write the screaming stuff would write the best love songs... because they have the most to hide. The guys that are in the most pain are usually the ones with the biggest hearts.

The Detective was different. Not that he wasn't a good man; Willie had heard enough about him to understand that he was the kind who didn't like to turn away from another's pain, the kind who couldn't put a pillow over his ears to drown out the cries of strangers. Those scars he had were badges of courage, and Willie knew that there were others hidden beneath his clothes, and still more deep inside, right beneath the skin and down to the soul. No, it was just that whatever goodness was there coexisted with rage and grief and loss.

I'm more into kind of real stories, psychological movies.

I want to ask him if it’s possible that a girl can be born unlovable, or does she just become that way?

People tell me it's a sin, to know and feel too much within.

"Pain has a way of clipping our wings and keeping us from being able to fly"... "And if left unresolved you can almost forget that you were ever created to fly in the first place."

Desires, memories, fears, passions form labyrinths in which we lose and find and then lose ourselves again.

My love runs deeper than the wounds.

Since Love has made ruins of my heart The sun must come and illumine them. Such generosity has broken me with shame.

I want to suffer so that I may love.

I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next. But I will spend the rest of my life in this living space writing these notes, this journal, recording my acts and reflections, finding some honor, some worth at the bottom of things. I want ten thousand pages that will stop the world.

It is not a garment I cast off this day, but a skin that I tear with my own hands.

Musings The little poets sing of little things: Hope, cheer, and faith, small queens and puppet kings; Lovers who kissed and then were made as one, And modest flowers waving in the sun. The mighty poets write in blood and tears And agony that, flame-like, bites and sears. They reach their mad blind hands into the night, To plumb abysses dead to human sight; To drag from gulfs where lunacy lies curled, Mad, monstrous nightmare shapes to blast the world. [click on the thumbnail by Jack "King" Kirby]

By digging into our souls, we often dig up what might better have remained there unnoticed." Alexis Alexandrovich

When I look at my life and its secret colors, I feel like bursting into tears.

real beauty is so deep you have to move into darkness to understand it.