Andrew Garfield

“In film, there's this kind of constant fear that you're going to be doing too much. That may be an unfounded fear because I love sizable performances on film, especially when they're by performers who push the boundaries of what people deem the right kind of size.”

“We were under a lot of financial pressure when I was growing up.”

“If I can keep losing myself - and finding parts of myself - in other people's writing and direction, then that's all I can really ask for. That's all I want, to keep losing myself.”

“Donald Trump is a lost soul wandering this Earth. He's been led down the Willy Loman path and believes his own hype. He's serving his little self and his little ego; otherwise, why would he need to overcompensate so much?”

“I have been drawn to stories that are attempting to turn suffering into beauty.”

“My parents signed me up for classical guitar lessons, which made for two years of the most depressing Wednesday evenings.”

“I've realised that at the top of the mountain, there's another mountain.”

“I think too much. Being in my body is much more satisfying than being in my head.”

“Spider-Man has always been a symbol of goodness and doing the right thing and looking after your fellow man.”

“I was raised with the idea that the arts were a doss - but the arts are vital. If you see Mark Rylance perform Shakespeare at the Globe, you know it's a spiritual act.”

“I've gone through my whole life caring deeply what people think of me.”

“I just think I've always been sensitive and had difficulty containing my feelings, and I've always searched for outlets for that, because otherwise those feelings come out in chaotic ways that aren't always great.”

“I hope that I'm always struggling, really. You develop when you're struggling. When you're struggling, you get stronger.”

“It's much easier to gain control over a mass population when you pit them against each other.”

“As an adolescent, Spider-Man was what got me through tough times in terms of being a skinny kid.”

“In secondary school I was floating - I wasn't passionate about anything. I did a little sport, but it was pretty joyless because the competitiveness was too much to bear.”

“I worked in a Starbucks that wasn't very popular - before the big coffee boom in London. My boss didn't take kindly to my incessant sitting. I was like, 'Look, I've dusted everything, the stockroom is all figured out... I would rather sit now so I have the energy when a customer does come in.'”

“We're all one thing, and we're all just enacting different aspects of ourselves all the time.”