Hillary Clinton is more in the center of things than I am, but she also knows how to work with the opposition, which is a necessary talent in politics right now.

I'm well aware when they fired the starting gun I was halfway down the track, but I still ran as fast as I could for 25 years.

Everything is so fragile. There's so much conflict, so much pain... You keep waiting for the dust to settle and then you realize this is it; the dust is your life going on. If happy comes along - that weird, unbearable delight that's actual happy - I think you have to grab it while you can. You take what you can get, 'cause it's here, and then... gone.

The comic world has its own limitations, as everything does. I adore it, I respect it, but it's not going to take over all of me.

I don't think I'm a celebrity. Maybe I'm a cult figure?

The Hulk is like a haiku; you've got to find just the right words. I think, and I hope, we did that with The Avengers.

Don't just be yourself. Be all of your selves.