All actors bring something unexpected to the role because they have to translate what's on the page and make a real character out of the black-and-white text that's there in the script.

I've always said that fame is fleeting, but anonymity can last a lifetime.

Maybe it's every kid's dream to go into a pod and come out looking like Captain America. And you don't even have to exercise or lift weights! It's great!

I'd love to make a sequel to 'The Rocketeer.' The film didn't do as well at the box office as we all hoped, but it has endured and generated a following.

I'm not going to take a show unless I'm not sure I can do it. You have to have that sort of adrenaline.

'Captain America' was probably the most universally positive experience I've had in this mad business.

Look, people have an image of Italians. When I go somewhere in the world, I don't care where it is, when they look at me it's not about my intelligence. It's who can I beat up.

I loved him, but I also realized how calm my life was without him.

In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.

When you see that you are not the body, that the body comprises only a small fraction of the aggregate of your awareness, then death is no fear, life is no fear, there is no fear.

I was racing through life, utterly confused and angry. I don't know if I was out of control; it was more like I felt frustrated with myself and everything I saw happening around me.

I am not Lyme disease, that's not who I am, I'm still a feminist artist, but this is a part of my story too, and I'm not going to keep it out to look cooler.

Christian life consists of faith and charity

That's why you bring in a veteran player. You never know when a player goes down, a guy's got to step up and play.

It's hard to be ambitious if you're content, isn't it?

As we Wizards go, I'm pretty harmless.