Quotes

[On his resemblance to Henry Cavill ] It came to my attention before the internet got a hold of me. But my pie-in-the-sky ambition is definitely to play Superman. I would love to see somebody do an upbeat, throwback [take on Superman]. I love the Henry Cavill dark and gritty take, but I would love to see the next one be very bright and optimistic.

[Entertainment Weekly, 2019] I think it's important for actors to be able to do a lot of different things. I don't want to be pigeonholed into one type of role.

I've also got a lot of physical comparisons to Tom Welling [who played Clark Ken/Superman on Smallville (2001). When I was growing up, he was the Superman who was on TV every week. I think, to one extent or another, all of the Superman actors...There's some Venn diagram of our physical characteristics, which makes sense for a superhero who is classically the one who doesn't wear a mask.

I had the pleasure of exchanging letters with two previous Supermans, Henry Cavill and Tyler Hoechlin. Both of them, interestingly, sort of said in their own words, 'I'm not gonna try to give you any tips.' And I think that's a very Superman thing. Superman's not so much for giving advice or dictating how other people should be. They really just conveyed to me an encouragement and a sense of 'have fun with it,' which I think is Supermans way of doing it too.

We just discovered over Passover that [my aunt's] special recipe for matzo balls, which are the greatest matzo balls you've ever had in your life, is actually just the recipe on the back of the Manischewitz matzo ball mix box... So she's been revealed as a fraud. I don't know which back of what box she got this amazing pesto recipe from.