All the scientists who are working on solving the problem of curing paralysis say that it won't do you any good if you don't keep your body in shape.

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

I have never been disabled in my dreams.

I think we all have a little voice inside us that will guide us. It may be God, I don't know. But I think that if we shut out all the noise and clutter from our lives and listen to that voice, it will tell us the right thing to do.

The character is a piece of fiction. You are yourself, however, and that makes you interesting, because you're alive and you're a human being.

For everyone who thought I couldn’t do it… for everyone who thought I shouldn’t do it… for everyone who said, ‘It’s impossible’… see you at the finish line!