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

[Jimmy] Breslin's [write] really great book on Branch Rickey. And Branch Rickey himself wrote quite a lot. There's some film and kinescope from television.

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.

I don't want to be a movie star. I want to be in movies that are stars.

Irish as a person but I feel Jewish as an actor.

That's always my ambition is to create a character out of what will help tell the story. I've never been an actor to say my character wouldn't do that, because he should do that in order to help tell the story.

If I were a serious person, I'd probably have a real job.