Whether someone else would have played Superman better or worse would be up for a lot of debate on the internet forums, I'm sure.

I'm loyal to a fault. I may have learned that from my mother.

At boarding school there wasn't much time for much of anything except education.

I just loved the coolness of [Sean] Connery's Bond. He just sort of oozes cool.

Whether someone else would have played Superman better or worse would be up for a lot of debate on the internet forums, I'm sure.

I'm from a family of six men, so I'm bound to be physical.

Playing an icon [superman], you don't try to be an icon because that defeats the purpose. The responsibility attached is enormous, and the realization that it actually really, really matters meant that I wanted to put the most amount of work into representing the character properly.