Quotes from Tom Holland

I've made 'The Pilgrimage' - where I actually had to speak Gaelic - and I was shooting in Belfast as well.

I reckon I had 30 Spider-Man costumes over the years since I was a little baby. I had Spider-Man bed sheets.

I feel like I've been playing Spider-Man my whole life. He's a character I've been pretending to be in my bedroom since I was a kid - so I've been preparing for this forever, I think.

I've always had an argument with my best friend that Spider-Man was way better than Batman. I was a massive fan growing up.

I don't like spiders, man, just because they are sneaky - they just really scare me. They are hairy - ugh.

I don't like spiders at all, but I love heights.

Like, 100 percent, I hate spiders. I thought I really liked them, and I learned that was just false. I really can't be around spiders. It scares me so much.

One of the reasons why Spider-Man is my favorite superhero is because we both undergo big changes in our lives.

'Fan' is an understatement. I had the Spider-Man costume, I had bed sheets, toys, you name it. I've always had an argument with my best friend that Spider-Man was way better than Batman. I was a massive fan growing up.

Me and my mates go free running all the time. It's not my mum's favourite sport. I've probably jumped four metres on to grass and two metres between buildings. It's nothing like you see on the Internet, with guys jumping off skyscrapers, but it's fun.

Bullies now aren't just jocks. They're rich kids in the nice cars with the fancy clothes.

I feel like if you put something out into the universe, then you increase your chances of it happening.

I'm literally tone-deaf with singing. It's unreal.

Peter Parker's storyline hits every key point of growing up.

There's too much we don't know about the ocean to make me feel comfortable around it.

I'm studying theater and media. I don't really know why I took media, because I'm so useless with technology, though it's fun. But, I do love theater and am having a great time learning about all the practitioners and getting to perform with my friends.

I completely and utterly rely on my mum. Without my mum, I would not be anywhere at all. I'd literally just be a couch potato.

I really am having the time of my life. But as far as my future goes, I want to stretch myself as an actor in a way that Jake Gyllenhaal, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Meryl Streep do.

I haven't seen 'The Empire Strikes Back' - I'm not gonna lie.

I am definitely the same person I was when I finished 'The Impossible.' That's one of the things I really strive to keep.

The 20-year goal is to be a film director. The 15-year goal is to win an Oscar. The five-year goal is to just keep enjoying myself.

JULIA: Oldest daughter of Julia and Agrippa. Owner of the smallest dwarf in Rome. Exiled in AD 8.

that there existed no earthly empire so great or overweening that it might not one day be dashed to pieces

Harmony enables small things to flourish – while the lack of it destroys the great.