Christopher Reeve Quotes

We can either watch life from the sidelines, or actively participate... Either we let self-doubt and feelings of inadequacy prevent us from realising our potential, or embrace the fact that when we turn our attention away from ourselves, our potential is limitless.

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.

Your body is not who you are. The mind and spirit transcend the body.

Don't give up. Don't lose hope. Don't sell out.

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.

When I first began acting, I assumed an intellectual responsibility attached to my profession, which I had accepted for a long time. My father taught me that an actor had to have a social and political conscience, and that the work that he does has to reflect from that.

Pain is inevitable. Misery is a choice.

You play the hand you're dealt. I think the game's worthwhile.

What can I do today to take a step forward?

You learn the stuff of your life (sports, movies, traveling) ... that's not the essence of your existence, my relationships were always good. Now they have transcended (rise beyond).

Success is not about money and power. Real success is about relationships. There's no point in making $50 million a year if your teenager thinks you're a jerk and you spend no time with your wife.

For everyone who thought I couldn’t do it… for everyone who thought I shouldn’t do it… for everyone who said, ‘It’s impossible’… see you at the finish line!

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.

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.

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.

Once we choose hope, everything is possible.

Misfortune can force you into doing things you should be doing anyway. Lessons come from adversity. Anything can happen to anyone... You can find a new lease on life - more meaning than you thought possible in simple things... Let go. Live in the moment. Go forward.

If you don't have a vision, nothing happens.

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

I think we all have a little voice inside us that will guide us. It may be God, I don't know. But I think that if we shut out all the noise and clutter from our lives and listen to that voice, it will tell us the right thing to do.

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.

You've got to give more than you take.

To be able to feel the lightest touch really is a gift.

The key to success is letting the relationships in your life grow to the highest levels they possibly can . . . not putting yourself first in life and remembering that the more you give away, the more you have.

A hero is an ordinary person doing things in an extra ordinary way.

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

Success is finding satisfaction in giving a little more than you take.

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.

At some time, often when we least expect it, we all have to face overwhelming challenges. When the unthinkable happens, the lighthouse is hope. Once we find it, we must cling to it with absolute determination. When we have hope, we discover powers within ourselves we may have never known- the power to make sacrifices, to endure, to heal, and to love. Once we choose hope, everything is possible.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Either you vegetate and look out a window, or activate and try to effect change.

You can do anything you think you can.

Never accept ultimatums, conventional wisdom, or absolutes.

If I can laugh, I can live.

There is no such thing as can't.

I'm not living the life I thought I would lead, but it does have meaning, purpose. There is love... there is joy... there is laughter.

I get pretty impatient with people who are able-bodied but are somehow paralyzed for other reasons.

Once you choose hope, anything's possible

We live in a time when the words impossible and unsolvable are no longer part of the scientific community's vocabulary. Each day we move closer to trials that will not just minimize the symptoms of disease and injury but eliminate them.

A hero is someone who, in spite of weakness, doubt or not always knowing the answers, goes ahead and overcomes anyway.

We all have many more abilities and internal resources than we know. My advice is that you don't need to break your neck to find out about them.

Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean.

I remember telling a neurosurgeon, "Don't give me too much information, because at the moment my ignorance is my best asset."

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