I want to do it all. I want to climb mountains, go through jungles, fight wars in space, get the girl, shoot the bad-guy full of lead, have all the zippy one liners, bulge muscles out of a singlet, drip sweat and blood on screen, all of that.

I feel like I'm away for much of my own life.

My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a 'desert rats' tank operator in the Second World War.

I can’t stop traffic on Fifth Avenue, not unless I walk in front of an oncoming cab.

I've turned up to costume parties in the wrong costume. I've made social faux pas a plenty. I've put one foot in front of the other and fallen over.

You have to sometimes just run with the problem rather than trying to solve it with hi-tech wizardry and lots of planning.

I want to be able to play trailer-bound fatties in a Judd Apatow comedy.