If people like to see me with my shirt off, it's enormously flattering. But that doesn't mean I'm going to take my shirt off all the time.

If someone's trying to intimidate me, male or female, I don't respect them enough to be intimidated.

A lot of the stuff you do as an actor - or I do, because I can't speak for everyone - is not always consciously thought out. A lot of the time, for me, it's actually just feeling stuff, and it happens all in the moment and your body reacts.

With Superman, there are certain limitations for an actor. You can't go past certain boundaries because then you cease to be what the character is.

I like to go full bore into something. If you have a backup plan, then you've already admitted defeat.

I know I can't make everyone happy, but I know I can do the most justice I can possibly do to a character, or any character, if I put my all into it. That's the choice you have to make.

If there's one thing that we're very good at as humans, it's remembering the bad stuff. For some reason, it's always the pain that gets you.