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"I did a production of 'Journey's End,' an RC Sherriff play about World War I, at the Edinburgh Festival. I was 18 and it was the first time that people I knew and loved and respected came up to me after the show and said, 'You know, you could really do this if you wanted to.'"

Tom Hiddleston on War

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  • "He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice."

    Albert Einstein on War

  • "One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam."

    Martin Luther King, Jr. on War

  • "The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one."

    Albert Einstein on War

  • "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."

    Dwight D. Eisenhower on War

  • "We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills we shall never surrender."

    Winston Churchill on War

More quotes by Tom 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."

  • "If you play it straight it's funny - the best comedy is always played straight down the middle. The adjustment is understanding from the screenplay that a moment is hilarious."

  • "Some of the greatest actors have turned superheroes into a serious business: Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson in 'Batman' Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart, the first venerable knights of the X-Men, who have now passed the baton to Michael Fassbender and James McAvoy."

  • "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."

  • "In our increasingly secular society, with so many disparate gods and different faiths, superhero films present a unique canvas upon which our shared hopes, dreams and apocalyptic nightmares can be projected and played out."

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