What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely.

At first, dreams seem impossible, then improbable, and eventually inevitable

I never said I will stand, I said I hoped to stand. It wasn’t a prediction.

The bigger the canvas, the better I do. I’m not so good at understated, kitchen-sink kinds of parts.

My father is an intellectual and physical man, which is a rather unusual combination. He’s great. As he brought up me and my brothers and sisters, he ingrained in us that your appearance is not your responsibility, other than that you should not be a slob.

We live in a time when the words impossible and unsolvable are no longer part of the scientific community’s vocabulary. Each day we move closer to trials that will not just minimize the symptoms of disease and injury but eliminate them.

I don’t have to prove anything to anyone. As a result, I am ready to take up again the characters who are closer to what I really am.

People may never understand this – and perhaps I should give up caring whether they do or not – but the idea of me playing Superman is so far away from what I was brought up to aspire to.

You should take some responsibility for the way you present yourself. But you should not be hung up on your looks, whether you are ugly or handsome, because it isn’t an achievement.

It’s defeatist to harp on what might have been, and yet, it’s hard to resist considering what might have been.