Annette O'Toole

Annette O'Toole: (about songwriting) It's almost like an acting exercise for me. Maybe that's why I'm able to do it, because I've been acting so long. You just kind of put yourself in the emotional place of this person singing the song and it just seems to come out, melodically and lyrically. That's just the way I think about it.

Annette O'Toole: My mother was a dancing teacher and I started taking dance from the time I was three. When I was 13, my family moved out to Los Angeles and I began acting lessons. I would get jobs here there, starting with The Danny Kaye Show. At 17, I started studying acting in depth. I left singing and dancing behind at that point. Those careers seemed very short to me, while acting could go on forever.

Annette O'Toole: I've had seven wonderful years playing Martha Kent but the fire just burned out and it's time to move on.

Annette O'Toole: What can you say about such a man as Christopher Reeve? He embodied all the best that a human being can hope to be.

Annette O'Toole: Boy, are they writing for me. I get to work so much with John Glover. I've never seen anybody work so hard; he is such an amazingly dedicated actor, an inspiration, and just so much fun.

Annette O'Toole: (About her role on Smallville) Martha has been married for practically her whole life and she was incredibly into her husband and their life together. But the truth is that Lionel is much more suited to her.

Annette O'Toole: When we were first together, he said, nobody's ever called me Darling. I said, I can't believe that I could just cry thinking about it.

Annette O'Toole: We wrote "A Kiss at the End of the Rainbow" in an hour and a half. It was the second song we'd ever written together. Now I wake up every day with melodies in my head.

Annette O'Toole: The only bad thing is that Smallville is shot in Vancouver, and Michael and I live in L.A. So sometimes I feel like a Ping-Pong ball.

Annette O'Toole: Michael came home and asked, W"ould you like to write a song with me?" I got this idea for a title called "A Kiss at the End of a Rainbow." So we had a couple glasses of wine and wrote it.

Annette O'Toole: (about Tom and the other young actors on Smallville) They're so mature in their work, they're not like young starting actors. Tom [Welling as Clark] in the very beginning was, but he got over that really fast and absorbed everything that he had to do very, very quickly. And of course, he's going to direct us in an episode soon, and we're all looking forward to that. It's come full circle.