For the first 10 minutes after you meet them, they have the wattage and charisma of movie stars. Then you have a coffee with them and you realize we're all the same, we're all just people. All of the actors in The Avengers are so nice. Marvel has these code names for projects and the code name for The Avengers was Group Hug. It felt very much like a group hug on set.

The world I've grown into at the moment is becoming increasingly more disturbing and unsettling.

What's my guilty pleasure? The thing is, I never feel guilty about pleasures.

I never get afraid of things. I only get excited.

Thor and Loki are defined by each other.

I'm an eternal realist and the success rate for being an actor is pretty low.

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