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

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

Some people are walking around with full use of their bodies and they're more paralyzed than I am.

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

I don't have to prove anything to anyone. As a result, I am ready to take up again the characters who are closer to what I really am.

You've got to give more than you take.