In the face of adversity, hope often comes in the form of a friend who reaches out to us.

And if you can channel the truth of your own experience onto the stage, that's what the audience wants to see.

I think we all have a little voice inside us that will guide us. It may be God, I don't know. But I think that if we shut out all the noise and clutter from our lives and listen to that voice, it will tell us the right thing to do.

I remember telling a neurosurgeon, "Don't give me too much information, because at the moment my ignorance is my best asset."

Once you choose hope, anything's possible

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.

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.