My father and I used to tussle about me becoming an actor. He's from strong, Presbyterian Scottish working-class stock, and he used to sit me down and say, 'You know, 99 percent of actors are out of work. You've been educated, so why do you want to spend your life pretending to be someone else when you could be your own man?'

It sounds cliched, but superheroes can be lonely, vain, arrogant and proud. Often they overcome these human frailties for the greater good.

Real love is strange and changeable… but also somehow constant.

It's like playing tennis, you play a different rally with different people. Every actor is different and the chemistry between actors is different.

I always thought of running as just dancing forward.

Thor and Loki are defined by each other.

I was informed yesterday that there's a Twitter account for my laugh. Very hard to get used to things like that. Pretty amazing.