Christopher Reeve Quotes - Page 3

By reaching out, more comes back than you can possibly imagine.

there is a relationship between the mind and the body that can both create a physical condition and enable us to recover from it

You should take some responsibility for the way you present yourself. But you should not be hung up on your looks, whether you are ugly or handsome, because it isn't an achievement.

What can I do today to take a step forward?

Even though I don't personally believe in the Lord, I try to behave as though He was watching.

I have never been disabled in my dreams.

I don't think actors are to blame for poor writing. The culture changes first, and the theater follows it. In the case of the movies, it's the same thing.

Living a life with meaning means spreading the word. Even if you can't move, you can have a powerful effect with what you say.

Nothing of any consequence happens unless people get behind an idea. It begins with an individual and they share the idea with more individuals-and eventually it becomes a movement.

And if you can channel the truth of your own experience onto the stage, that's what the audience wants to see.

On the wall of his rehabilitation room was a picture of the space shuttle blasting off, autographed by every astronaut now at NASA. On top of the picture it says, "We found nothing is impossible." That should be our motto.

It's defeatist to harp on what might have been, and yet, it's hard to resist considering what might have been.

I've still never had a dream that I'm disabled. Never.

Having that college-town atmosphere with a live repertory company available was a real gift. I found myself gravitating toward the theater from about the age of nine. I guess it was the environment that got me started.

The character is a piece of fiction. You are yourself, however, and that makes you interesting, because you're alive and you're a human being.

The bigger the canvas, the better I do. I'm not so good at understated, kitchen-sink kinds of parts.

Maybe one way I am original is that at heart I really am a classical actor. I haven't had my chance yet in the commercial world to show that. Movies aren't really made about classical people so much any more.

It's important to me to say what I really mean.

I never said I will stand, I said I hoped to stand. It wasn't a prediction.

I don't have to prove anything to anyone. As a result, I am ready to take up again the characters who are closer to what I really am.

People may never understand this - and perhaps I should give up caring whether they do or not - but the idea of me playing Superman is so far away from what I was brought up to aspire to.

I have no bones to pick and no fight with society. And I'm willing to be and interested in being in the mainstream of society.

I am optimistic. But I also know that, with time, I'm beginning to fight issues of aging as well as long-term paralysis.

My father is an intellectual and physical man, which is a rather unusual combination. He's great. As he brought up me and my brothers and sisters, he ingrained in us that your appearance is not your responsibility, other than that you should not be a slob.

I did my first apprenticeship when I was 15, then joined the union when I was 17. I worked every summer in high school and college.