All acting is an act of imagination. You are simply conjuring up imaginary circumstances in your mind and responding truthfully to them.

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

You never know what's around the corner. It could be everything. Or it could be nothing. You keep putting one foot in front of the other, and then one day you look back and you've climbed a mountain.

I never like to make plans. It's nice to just hang.

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

Some of the greatest actors have turned superheroes into a serious business: Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson in Batman; Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart, the first venerable knights of the X-Men, who have now passed the baton to Michael Fassbender and James McAvoy.

Nurture your own confidence and make it real; don't pretend to be someone you're not.