While trying to stay calm during my wait for the Avengers movie, I learned two things: The actors and director Joss Whedon are goofy. Here are fun quotes from the movie premiere and from an Entertainment Weekly group interview.
Injuries during filming:
Jeremy Renner (Hawkeye): I sprained my neck.
Joss Whedon (director) He was turning to the right. Kids, don't turn to the right. It's too dangerous.
Samuel L. By God Jackson (Nick Fury): I had an awful rash from my costume because the neck was too high.
Scarlett Johannson: Oh, here we go.
Jackson: I filed workmen's comp for that. I'm still getting paid.
What did Robert Downey Jr. wear under the Iron Man suit?
Downey: Cash!
How good is the movie?
Downey: Everybody said it really worked. We went home like, "Phew!" Otherwise -- (
pointing at Joss Whedon) I'd be gunning for you, motherfilker.
I'm sorry. I'll never say motherfilker with Sam Jackson in the room again.
Jackson: It's OK. I have different ways of saying it when I hear other people say it.

Hawkeye's personality
Jeremy Renner: That's what makes him an interesting character. He's sort of inward.
Jackson: What did you say? N-Word? What?
Playing the Hulk:
Mark Ruffalo (Bruce Banner / Hulk): We talked a lot about Bill Bixby's David Banner. I watched the TV show with my 10-year-old boy. After the third episode he said, "He's so misunderstood."
Playing Nick Fury:
Jackson: I watched David Hasselhoff and decided I was not going to do any of that.
Which cast member is toughest?
Chris Hemsworth (Thor):"Scarlett would kill us all. She's lethal."
Clark Gregg (Agent Coulson): My money is almost uniformly on Scarlet Johannson. She does this chair flip thing in the film that is so awesome."
Robert Downey Jr. (He is Iron Man): Not all of us are in the same weight class so it is hard to say between Hemsworth and Evans. I think they're pretty evenly matched. I think it would go to the ground. Then I think it's me, Ruffalo, and Renner in a quote-unquote three-way in which I lay waste to them with sleeper holds but then we cuddle. And then it is Hiddleston versus Johansson if I am not mistaken. That probably just winds up in dinner at a five-star restaurant somewhere."
