"If more people would try and reach up instead of going to the lowest common denominator, I think we'd be a lot better off."

"I lost my parents very early in my life. My mom died three weeks after I graduated from high school, and my dad died two years after I got married."

"That's so important for children when they're growing up, to have a strong male role model."

"My mother was a leading lady in a local theatre in Birmingham, Alabama, where I grew up."

"Many of our deepest motives come, not from an adult logic of how things work in the world, but out of something that is frozen from childhood."

"If you really want something you just hang with it. We think our future's ahead and not behind."

"Can they do both? That's a huge balance, I think, with kids- trying to find the right- it's everything, you know, it's social life, it's academics, it's sports."

"I think superheroes are heroes with flaws, and in their flaws, there is a sense of humor."