People may never understand this - and perhaps I should give up caring whether they do or not - but the idea of me playing Superman is so far away from what I was brought up to aspire to.

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

A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

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.

Success is not about money and power. Real success is about relationships. There's no point in making $50 million a year if your teenager thinks you're a jerk and you spend no time with your wife.

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.

I never said I will stand, I said I hoped to stand. It wasn't a prediction.