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.'
There was so much going on in 1936 with the height of the Great Depression and the Spanish Civil War and Germany on the move and all of those things. There was a tension in the air.
My favorite thing about working with Lady Gaga is really just the sheer level of creativity she brings to the table. And she's really one of the most intelligent people I've ever known. Her intelligence is equaled by her heart.
I used to go to sports camp every summer. I'd make a lot of new friends, and it was all athletic. It was basically a place for parents to send their kids to run out all their summer energy for two weeks.
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.
I put on muscle really quick.
I really just try to focus on my job, which is to be an actor, and outside that, the cards fall where they may, and on not getting caught up in how people react to certain things. That's a death trap creatively.
It's rare that you get to play a great role that has an arc.
I try to just live my life and do my work, and the rest will just fall into place, as it may. As it will.
'The Kids Are All Right' is amazing. The performances are insanely good. Julianne Moore is going to wreck you. This is the best I've ever seen her, and I've seen everything she's ever done. I like the story, and I think it's a great alternative to the big summer popcorn blockbusters.
I would love to just keep working with really great directors who really inspire me.
New York City is one of the greatest places on the planet. You have the best in food, art, theatre, and definitely people-watching.
I lived in several hotels, yeah. You have to try to make it home.
My parents knew if they kept me active, I'd stay out of trouble.
When I was in high school, there was no safe haven, there was no outlet for you to speak your mind.
I think anyone who's ever gone through adolescence and wanted something from their parents knows the basic tenets of a con.
My grandma blows my mind. To me, she exemplifies what a loving, accepting Christian is.
I don't care about the size of the roles, or how they're marketed or billed or anything like that. I would love to be a part of stories that tell us about where we've come from, where we are, where we're going - with great directors.
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.
I had a very progressive drama teacher who would buy all the plays that were in New York and bring them to suburban Texas.
I had a wild imagination as a kid - wild! - and I was outside all the time, swinging around in trees by myself.
I'm so thankful to have been born in the times that we live in.
I learned a lot about self-reinvention. How you can be born Milton Sternberg in the Bronx and then become Monroe Stahr in Hollywood.
There aren't a lot of supernatural things that I'm scared or super terrified of, but clowns are definitely on that list.
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've been handling guns since I was a kid.
Just being attached to 'Superman' actually gave a great boost to my career.
My personal life is a source of incredible happiness for me, but it's personal, and it's not for me to hock or shop around to the highest bidder.
We all have a great deal of admirable qualities, and we all have some that could probably be improved upon.
I'm always so inspired by Jeff Eastin's writing.
Everybody thinks that equality comes from identifying people, and that's not where equality comes from.
In the end, someone is depending on me to show up on their set looking a specific way, whether that's 40 pounds overweight or 40 pounds underweight - or looking like a stripper.
It's not like the right for gay people to marry just happened.
To be honest with you, my physical state is usually dictated by the project I'm working on at a given time.
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.
