I'm kind of shocked any time somebody hires me and even more shocked any time somebody hires me to play a character like Lex Luthor, which I only knew from the public consciousness of him being a bald, brooding villain who is older than me.

The ideal way to approach a character is to find something in yourself that relates in some way.

If I get no sleep the night before a show, I feel that performance is the best one.

Don't be a hero, live to fight another day.

I feel things can always be funny, but that's probably because I have some kind of leftover childhood need to make people laugh. For somebody like me, that's the thing you excel at.

I did children's theater when I was younger, and then when I was about 14 I started doing theater in New York City.

I don't attribute an actor's great success to their own individual performance when it's something as collaborative as a movie.