Christopher Reeve Quotes

We all have many more abilities and internal resources than we know. My advice is that you don't need to break your neck to find out about them.

We have a government that, generally speaking, does not respond to the people.

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

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 give up. Don't lose hope. Don't sell out.

I learned years ago to come to terms with having so much done for me by others.

At first, dreams seem impossible, then improbable, and eventually inevitable.

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 someone who, in spite of weakness, doubt or not always knowing the answers, goes ahead and overcomes anyway.

If we don't dream of the possible,
the possible never happens.

To be able to feel the lightest touch really is a gift.

We can either watch life from the sidelines, or actively participate ... Either we let self-doubt and feelings of inadequacy prevent us from realising our potential, or embrace the fact that when we turn our attention away from ourselves, our potential is limitless.

Once we choose hope, everything is possible.

Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean.

I remember telling a neurosurgeon, "Don't give me too much information, because at the moment my ignorance is my best asset."

I did my first apprenticeship when I was 15, then joined the union when I was 17. I worked every summer in high school and college.

I have never been disabled in my dreams.

I'm starting a new chapter in my [[life], and you have no idea how much that means.

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

Success is finding satisfaction in giving a little more than you take.

I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles. The fifteen-year-old boy who landed on his head while wrestling with his brother, leaving him paralyzed and barely able to swallow or speak. Travis Roy, paralyzed in the first eleven seconds of a hockey game in his freshman year at college. Harry Steifel, paralyzed from the chest down in a car accident at seventeen, completing his education and working on Wall Street at age thirty-two, but having missed so much of what life has to offer. These are the real heroes, and so are the many families and friends who have stood by them.

Maybe one way I am original is that at heart I really am a classical actor. I haven't had my chance yet in the commercial world to show that. Movies aren't really made about classical people so much any more.

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.

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

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

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

I've still never had a dream that I'm disabled. Never.

We live in a time when the words impossible and unsolvable are no longer part of the scientific community's vocabulary. Each day we move closer to trials that will not just minimize the symptoms of disease and injury but eliminate them.

Nothing of any consequence happens unless people get behind an idea. It begins with an individual and they share the idea with more individuals-and eventually it becomes a movement.

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

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.

Either you vegetate and look out a window, or activate and try to effect change.

Having that college-town atmosphere with a live repertory company available was a real gift. I found myself gravitating toward the theater from about the age of nine. I guess it was the environment that got me started.

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

Once you choose hope, anything's possible.

A hero is an ordinary person doing things in an extra ordinary way.

I have to stop this cascade of memories, or at least take them out of their drawer only for a moment, have a brief look, and put them back. I know how to do it now: I have to take the key to acting and apply it to my life. There is no other way to survive except to be in the moment. Just as my accident and its aftermath caused me to redefine what a hero, I've had to take a hard look at what it means to live as fully as possible in the present. How do you survive in the moment when it's bleak and painful and the past seems so seductive?

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

If I can laugh, I can live.

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

You've got to give more than you take.

And if you can channel the truth of your own experience onto the stage, that's what the audience wants to see.

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 have no bones to pick and no fight with society. And I'm willing to be and interested in being in the mainstream of society.

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.

Never accept ultimatums, conventional wisdom, or absolutes.

Either you choose to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out into the ocean.

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.

You learn the stuff of your life (sports, movies, traveling) ... that's not the essence of your existence, my relationships were always good. Now they have transcended (rise beyond).