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

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.

What I do is based on powers we all have inside us; the ability to endure; the ability to love, to carry on, to make the best of what we have - and you don't have to be a 'Superman' to do it.

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.

In the face of adversity, hope often comes in the form of a friend who reaches out to us.

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.

So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.