I train like a pro-athlete, not like an actor who's just trying to look pretty.

I did [Henrik] Ibsen and [Anton] Chekhov for years. Obviously I didn't get the kind of recognition I have now. Somebody once told me, "You ride the horse the direction it's going."

I'm a nerd. But I'm not that hard-core.

I was happier going back to my roots: training like men do in my hometown of Pittsburgh. Back home the guys in the gyms don't lift to look good; they're lifting to lift. They do it because they want to squat more and bench more.

I grew up a misfit. I never fit in.

I watched so many comic book movies where the actors weren't as built as the characters in the book. It made me mad because they didn't look right.

Acting was my first love.