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.

I refuse to allow a disability to determine how I live my life. There is only one way to go in life and that is forward.

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

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.

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.

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.

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