Christopher Reeve Quotes

I am a very lucky guy. I can testify before Congress. I can raise funds. I can raise awareness.

My father is an intellectual and physical man, which is a rather unusual combination. He's great. As he brought up me and my brothers and sisters, he ingrained in us that your appearance is not your responsibility, other than that you should not be a slob.

I gradually stopped wondering, ‘What life do I have?' and began to consider, ‘What life can I build?

When the first Superman movie came out, I gave dozens of interviews to promote it. The most frequent question was: What is a hero? My answer was that a hero is someone who commits a courageous action without considering the consequences. Now my definition is completely different. I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

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

Don't put a limit on what can be accomplished.

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

Even if your body doesn't work the way it used to, the heart and the mind and the spirit are not diminished.

In the second half of the 20th century, people are becoming more limited: Vocabularies are smaller, thoughts are smaller, aspirations are smaller, everything is very scaled down. Everyone is typecast.

You should have a dream and absolutely go for it. Don't let anybody say you can't do it.

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.

It's defeatist to harp on what might have been, and yet, it's hard to resist considering what might have been.

I have more awareness of other people and, I hope, more sensitivity to their needs. I also find that I'm more direct and outspoken.

What I do is based on powers we all have inside us; the ability to endure; the ability to love, to carry on, to make the best of what we have - and you don't have to be a 'Superman' to do it.

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

What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that's how I approached the part.

America is better when all of us take care of all of us.

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.

I have never been disabled in my dreams.

When we turn our attention away from ourselves, our potential is limitless.

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

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.

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.

So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.

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.