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" I love 'Sunset Boulevard.' I love the writing, I love the performances, I love the camera work. I think it's a perfect movie. "

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" While I feel that I have a great reservoir to draw from as an actor for lots of different roles, it is difficult because it can be an industry where it's people's jobs to thin-slice you really quickly and try to fit you into a niche in the market. "

" Working on TV can be quite insular. "

" I had a wild imagination as a kid - wild! - and I was outside all the time, swinging around in trees by myself. "

" I learned a lot about self-reinvention. How you can be born Milton Sternberg in the Bronx and then become Monroe Stahr in Hollywood. "

" Unfortunately, in some parts of the country, some kids are taught at an early age that being different is somehow bad or wrong or worthy of ridicule. "

" As actors you're always going to take certain roles that are in your comfort zone and take ones that aren't. "

" Playing athletics, playing a lot of different sports, going to drama school... I was one of those kids who wanted to do everything, so I ended up being pretty average at everything. "

" I think people in theater are pretty open-minded and objective about the talent and what they can bring to the story they want to tell. "

" You have to remember you're an artist and get hungry. "

" I've been handling guns since I was a kid. "

" When you work crazy TV hours, you got to have a good sense of humor. "

" I see what kids in the business have to watch. It's tough to do. "

" My favorite actors are people who I don't know anything about, and I can project any character onto them. "

" Outside of, as a kid, just wanting to be able to fly and run faster than a speeding locomotive and being able to leap tall buildings in a single bound, we'd like to hope that, when push comes to shove, we can do the right thing. I think as long as there is that hope in our society and in the zeitgeist of superheroes, Superman will be relevant. "

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" Everybody thinks that equality comes from identifying people, and that's not where equality comes from. "

" There's a level of love that really dissolves a lot of egotism and self-absorption. "

" It's rare that you get to be a part of something that, hopefully, has some significance socially or historically. "

" Just being attached to 'Superman' actually gave a great boost to my career. "

" For me, I look at a pilot and go, 'I see the landscape. I see the characters. I see the direction and the potential of the story.' And I also go, 'That didn't work. I could change that. Maybe that works. I don't know. We'll see.' For me, I look at it, as an actor, as what can I improve upon? "

" I adore Jane Lynch, so just to get the opportunity to work with her was phenomenal. "

" One of the ways I learned how to act, really, is by having secrets and having to function as a kid in a public school in suburban Bible Belt Texas. "

" I felt a responsibility to Simon and to our kids to be able to live with integrity and not have some strange split psychology of 'This is who my dad is at home, and this is who he is to the public.' "

" I would say confidence and security and comfortability in one's own skin. I think that's so attractive. Truly. "

" I would love to just keep working with really great directors who really inspire me. "

" I like endings that let your imagination do a lot of the work. "

" I never really endeavored to hide anything. But there were times I chose not to relegate my history to the back page of a magazine, which to me is sort of akin to putting your biography on a bathroom wall. "

" I remember I was really, really proud the first moment I got my insurance and also just going in to get my SAG card and filling out the form and realizing I was a member of all the unions I could be a part of as an actor. It was a really fulfilling experience for me. "

" I put on muscle really quick. "

" Activism isn't beautiful and easy, or a bunch of people getting together and picketing; it's a lot more complicated and difficult than that. "

" It's all about communication and a dialogue between individuals - get rid of the labels, get rid of the shame, get rid of the stigmas and just be your most authentic self. "