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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.