Garfield: "I think too much. Being in my body is much more satisfying than being in my head."

Garfield: "I do just want to be an actor. The thing I get out of it is actually doing the job and inhabiting the world and the role - and I mean that genuinely. That's what I'm in it for."

Garfield: "I realized that after finding this thing that allowed me to express myself - acting - and being encouraged by a few people that I could do it, I had kind of grabbed onto it and dug in my claws in a way that was maybe a bit unhealthy. I allowed myself to get into a headspace where I lived or died by what I achieved in this particular field."

Garfield: "I was a monkey child. I was like a clown."

Garfield: “I think it’s so easy for us to fall back into what conventional wisdom tells us, which is not to feel or not to express your feelings or not to be aware of your feelings they are just feelings. Well, no, I think feelings are rather important. And if they aren’t expressed that’s when dangerous stuff occurs.”

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

Garfield: "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."

Garfield: "I hope that I'm always struggling, really. You develop when you're struggling. When you're struggling, you get stronger."

Garfield: "I'd much rather be in the world than in some ivory tower somewhere."

Garfield: "I sincerely want to help create beauty in the world and move a culture of separateness back towards community. I really, really do, and I think art is a powerful way of doing that."

Garfield: "Since I was [young], I've had that feeling of, 'Am I enough? Am I worthy? Am I supposed to be here?' And my culture and society is telling me that I'm actually not in a lot of ways - unless I have this amount of money, or I'm in this kind of car and I have this kind of job, or I'm famous, or whatever."

Garfield: "When I found out about being cast in 'Spider-Man,' it was like this bubble developed around me. I was floating in it for a while. And then, suddenly, it evaporated, and I was like, 'Well, I'm just an actor. I don't get to actually be Spider-Man.'"

Garfield: "I've gone through my whole life caring deeply what people think of me."

Garfield: "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."

Garfield: "I love that idea that if you know someone's story, it's impossible not to love them. This is potentially hokey but incredibly true, as far as I'm concerned."

Garfield: "I don't believe anyone is ugly."

Garfield: "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?"

Garfield: "I've realised that at the top of the mountain, there's another mountain."

Garfield: "I have very strong feelings about what modern fame means, and the toxicity of it. I read Naomi Klein's No Logo when I was 15. It's one of the things that's shaped my relationship to fame - to endorsements, to selling things. I've taken a certain path in terms of all that stuff."

Garfield: "I have been drawn to stories that are attempting to turn suffering into beauty."

Garfield: "I have to remember that I didn't have to become an actor. I didn't have to put myself in this position. If I'd wanted to have autonomy - if that was what I was after - then I could have chosen another profession."

Garfield: "Obviously there's something very seductive about movies, which can be attractive in a bad way if you're doing them for the wrong reasons — for money, or for fame. I hope I won't ever do that. I don't feel at home in L.A., I feel like I'm on holiday. It's nice to dip your feet in occasionally, but I think it's probably quite unhealthy to spend too much time there at once."

Garfield: "I feel incredibly awkward as a human being and incredibly teenaged still."

Garfield: "When I was 6 I thought that I wanted to be a musician - like a singer-songwriter. That's what I romantically envisioned for myself. But in reality the experience of getting into music was just the opposite. My parents signed me up for classical guitar lessons, which made for two years of the most depressing Wednesday evenings."

Garfield: "All one can do is just be true to oneself."

Garfield: "Films were really my church. As a young kid, it was movies and books; it was nothing remarkable, really, just that is where I felt soothed, that is where I felt most myself... safest."

[On how the press sometimes unfairly reframes his words]

Garfield: "But it’s inevitable, isn’t it? Especially in print, because this is your interview. This isn’t my interview — this is through your prism, your perspective. I find that really interesting, and occasionally frustrating."

Garfield: "America always seemed to me this foreign land that I imagined I could escape to if I needed to get away - and I think that came both from the fact that I was born there and from watching so many American movies when I was a kid. I was brought up on American films."

Garfield: "Hate doesn't end hate. Love ends hate."