Benedict has his own gravity, both as an actor and a human being. He pulls you in and you are powerless to escape. I never knew whether to cry out in fear or weep in his arms.

Damon Lindleof on Benedict Cumberbatch [X] (via deareje)

In The Avengers: “My job, during three or four months was to get out of bed and grow inside me an incredible amount of negative feelings. It’s fun to play a person who is far from me. And there’s always a large degree of freedom because the villain does not have a strict moral. You can be inspired by a kind of wild state. But on the other hand, the negative energy is exhausting (…) can be psychologically fascinating, but exhausting.”

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“Stay hungry, stay young, stay foolish, stay curious, and above all stay humble, because just when you think you’ve got all the answers is the moment when some bitter twist of fate in the universe will remind you that you very much don’t.” Tom Hiddleston

“Sometimes to dream it, you almost kill the dream by trying to conceive it in your imagination. So my way, my process of making my way in the world is to put one foot in front of the other, accept each job for its own merits and that will lead to whatever it will lead to.” Tom Hiddleston

“I’ve been in this business for 12 years, and worked very, very hard, and it hasn’t been easy, and there have been times where I’ve been wrong for parts and I’ve been rejected, or felt like rejection, and you have to literally get up and dust yourself off and have another go. So to be here now, to be here today, is a huge, huge honor.” Tom Hiddleston

The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that life’s assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. The person in whom Its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise. Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i.e. the fear of falling remains a constant. The variable here is the other terror, the fire’s flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. It’s not desiring the fall; it’s terror of the flames. And yet nobody down on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling ‘Don’t!’ and ‘Hang on!’, can understand the jump. Not really. You’d have to have personally been trapped and felt flames to really understand a terror way beyond falling.

David Foster Wallace (via decembrist)

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Great Quotes:

Shakespeare: "Never play with the feelings of others because you may win the game but the risk is that you will surely lose the person for a lifetime.
Napoleon: "The world suffers a lot. Not because of the violence of bad people, but because of the silence of good people.
Einstein: "I am thankful to all those who said NO to me, because of them I did it myself"
Mahatma Gandhi: "The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong"
Dr. Seuss: "Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."

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When a fictional character starts keeping secrets from the writer, that’s when that character becomes real.

Steven Moffat (via relatedworlds)

My cousin Helen, who is in her 90s now, was in the Warsaw ghetto during World War II. She and a bunch of the girls in the ghetto had to do sewing each day. And if you were found with a book, it was an automatic death penalty. She had gotten hold of a copy of ‘Gone With the Wind’, and she would take three or four hours out of her sleeping time each night to read. And then, during the hour or so when they were sewing the next day, she would tell them all the story. These girls were risking certain death for a story. And when she told me that story herself, it actually made what I do feel more important. Because giving people stories is not a luxury. It’s actually one of the things that you live and die for.

Neil Gaiman (via brandx)

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