I think the desire to be with someone beautiful...I just had such a different experience growing up. To be in a position where you're lauded for things that you don't own - and don't think of yourself as - it's so bizarre.

My touchstone is just fear and anxiety and I know a lot about those two awful emotions.

I took part in a theatre festival in Massachusetts two summers after I graduated from college. Then I was in Los Angeles thinking: "I'm going to go to New York." I'd decided that I would not have a chance of a film career, so I was about to make the move. I bought a plane ticket and found a place to live in New York, packed my bags and of course the universe "told me" that I was not meant to go. Suddenly, a week before I was supposed to leave, I had three job offers and one of them was my first movie.

I think the first thing that I saw on IMAX was 'The Avengers.' The scope and the size of it are pretty neat, I will say that.

I was a shy kid, a late bloomer. At 22, I was probably 16 emotionally.

Dating someone on the opposite end of the happy spectrum teaches you an incredible amount of patience.

After many years of self-flagellation, I've realised that beating myself up doesn't get me anywhere.