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

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

It never occurred to me that I was a leading man until I was 19 years old. I had been acting since I was 10, so that's nine years and 30 or 40 plays, in school and summer stock, professional theater, too.

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

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

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

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