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.

Even though I don't personally believe in the Lord, I try to behave as though He was watching.

On the wall of his rehabilitation room was a picture of the space shuttle blasting off, autographed by every astronaut now at NASA. On top of the picture it says, "We found nothing is impossible." That should be our motto.

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

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

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

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.