It doesn't matter to me whether I go back to outer space or not [while acting]. The job's the same and I don't have any sort of genre preferences. I'm looking for a good story and a good character, whether earthbound or not.

What I think is really great about this movie [42], that young people who weren't there will have a chance to have the visceral experience of what Jackie Robinson went through.

The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.

When I met scientists, I found them to be as various as any other group of people.

I rarely play a real person, because I don't think I'm a good imitator.

My occupation is assistant storyteller. It is not "icon."

You have to have the darkness for the dawn to come.