You have an iconic character in Superman. You want to keep him vital and relevant to the audience as it evolves. So there's a creative dynamic.

Faked enthusiasm is worse than bad acting - it is bad acting with the intent to deceive.

Virtual simulations allow post-traumatic stress disorder sufferers to re-experience the events that traumatized them, and then slowly desensitize themselves to their impact through repeated recreations involving not just sight and sound but even smell.

It's always exciting to create a character that people can relate to, where people are like, 'Oh, I know this dude,' but maybe you've never actually seen this type of character on TV.

After I did television, I just felt I didn't have any more to give to the medium. And so I went back to the theatre and started directing and producing, and found I enjoyed it as much, if not more, than acting.

There is so much bloodshed and action packed into our films these days. Pretty women provide the much-needed respite to the masses from the melee of non-stop action.

I was actually really sick of being a broke actress with a toddler, so I wrote a script.

I learned to walk on my own legs, to dive so deeply into a role to forget that I'm acting.

I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shakespeare. An actor must act.

I think each character is different for me, but I am a director's actor. So if I get the right vision and right guidance from my director, I think sky is the limit for me.

One of the things you have to be acutely aware of when shooting episodes out of order is your character's relationship with the other characters.

I've certainly had less practice at fatherhood than I have at acting, but in fatherhood, at least my failures are private!

My goal has been to be a great character actor.

With time, many of the facts I learned were forgotten but I never lost the excitement of discovery.

I actually started acting because I couldn't dance.

I want to explore for myself and keep an open mind. There is a stigma of being a flat earther and if I'm going to do it I want to know the facts.

My first acting class was taught by a little known playwright, David Mamet, who then cast me in my first play, opposite John Malkovich.

The character of Johnny Drama was a lot of fun to play.

Every person's every action has an effect.

There is enormous value in face to face interaction.