You can do anything you think you can.

I gradually stopped wondering, ‘What life do I have?' and began to consider, ‘What life can I build?

Don't put a limit on what can be accomplished.

Even if your body doesn't work the way it used to, the heart and the mind and the spirit are not diminished.

I did my first apprenticeship when I was 15, then joined the union when I was 17. I worked every summer in high school and college.

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. From an acting point of view, that's how I approached the part.

Maybe one way I am original is that at heart I really am a classical actor. I haven't had my chance yet in the commercial world to show that. Movies aren't really made about classical people so much any more.