Christopher Reeve Quotes

Once you choose hope, anything's possible. ~ Christopher Reeve

Once we choose hope, everything is possible. ~ Christopher Reeve

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. ~ Christopher Reeve

Creation is built upon the promise of hope, that things will get better, that tomorrow will be better than the day before.

But it's not true. Cities collapse. Populations expand. Environments decay. People get ruder. You can't go to a movie without getting in a fight with the guy in the third row who won't shut up.

Filthy streets. Drive-by shootings. Irradiated corn. Permissible amounts of rat-droppings per hot dog. Bomb blasts, and body counts. Terror in the streets, on camera, in your living room. Aids and Ebola and Hepatitis B and you can't touch anyone because you're afraid you'll catch something besides love and nothing tastes as good anymore and Christopher Reeve is [dead] and love is statistically false.

Pocket nukes and subway anthrax. You grow up frustrated, you live confused, you age frightened, you die alone. Safe terrain moves from your city to your block to your yard to your home to your living room to the bedroom and all you want is to be allowed to live without somebody breaking in to steal your tv and shove an ice-pick in your ear.

That sound like a better world to you? That sound to you like a promise kept? ~ J. Michael Straczynski

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. ~ Christopher Reeve

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

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. ~ Christopher Reeve

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

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

Picture yourself crushin' Xzibit with your tough talk?
That's like Christopher Reeve doing the crip walk. ~ Xzibit

Christopher Nolan's astounding third Batman feature, 'The Dark Knight Rises,' represents the true maturation of the superhero movie - and provides the key to understanding the bottomless craving moviegoers have for these films, 34 years after the Christopher Reeve Superman gave birth to the genre. ~ John Podhoretz

Christopher Reeve did such an amazing job that to give him some kind of accent or more bravado would have been wrong. Audiences wouldn't have responded to that either. ~ Brandon Routh

A hero is someone who, in spite of weakness, doubt or not always knowing the answers, goes ahead and overcomes anyway. ~ Christopher Reeve

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. ~ Christopher Reeve

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

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

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

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

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

And yet I think of Christopher Reeve who said he would pay two million dollars to be able to feel pain again. What a courageous man! So I have to think that pain is a blessing. ~ Ricardo Montalban

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. ~ Christopher Reeve

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

Don't give up. Don't lose hope. Don't sell out. ~ Christopher Reeve

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

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. ~ Christopher Reeve

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

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. ~ Christopher Reeve

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

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

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? ~ Christopher Reeve

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

Christopher Reeve will always be Superman in my mind. ~ Jason Behr

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. ~ Christopher Reeve

I have never been disabled in my dreams. ~ Christopher Reeve

Christopher Reeve so completely inhabited the character Superman when he was in that costume, and that had such a huge effect on me as a child, watching those films back in the '70s. There was so much of that character that was, for me, Superman. ~ Gary Frank

America is better when all of us take care of all of us. ~ Christopher Reeve

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). ~ Christopher Reeve

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. ~ Christopher Reeve

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

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

When your heart speaks to you about what you need to do to sustain life on this planet, listen to it, make a difference, and be an inspiration for generations to come. Be inspired by people like Gandhi, Mother Teresa, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Christopher Reeve, Albert Schweitzer, Helen Keller, and many others. ~ Bernie Siegel

When I was eleven, I got cast in the last directorial project of Christopher Reeve. ~ Vanessa Marano

You've got to give more than you take. ~ Christopher Reeve

Never accept ultimatums, conventional wisdom, or absolutes. ~ Christopher Reeve

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. ~ Christopher Reeve

If I can laugh, I can live. ~ Christopher Reeve

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. ~ Christopher Reeve

When I was growing up, my favorite movie was 'Somewhere in Time' with Christopher Reeve, which is a hugely romantic, sappy movie. I couldn't understand it when the guy didn't get the girl or the girl didn't get the guy in love stories. I was definitely a sap. ~ Scott Michael Foster

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

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

Chris Hemsworth is like Christopher Reeve in that he can do two things: he can wear a big red cape without a shred of self-consciousness. But he's also funny as hell, and he's so sweet. So with all the fish-out-of-water stuff, he's so funny. So he does almost two jobs in a way. ~ Tom Hiddleston

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. ~ Christopher Reeve

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

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. ~ Christopher Reeve

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

If we do the work that we can do in this country, the work that we will do when John Kerry is President, people like Christopher Reeve will get up out of that wheelchair and walk again. ~ John Edwards

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

There was something else that [Christopher] Reeve told me privately, off camera, and it made me grin. While he was lying in the hospital, just becoming conscious with tubes connected to all parts of his body, a doctor in a white coat came in and with a Russian accent, commanded: "Turn over!"
Are you nuts? Reeve thought.
I said: 'Turn over!'" the doctor repeated.
As Reeve was about to answer "the imbecile", he realized there was something familiar about the man in the white coat. He wasn't a doctor at all. He was Reeve's old buddy from acting school at Julliard, Robin Williams. Reeve waited for a breath, and almost choked with laughter. He realized, he told me, "If I can laugh, I can live. ~ Barbara Walters

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

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

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. ~ Christopher Reeve

I saw, during the midterm campaign of 2006, how difficult it was for opponents of stem cell research to run against hope. And so it was in the 2008 presidential contest. This was hope in the collective, a definition that should always apply to the expression of a people's political will. Christopher Reeve had believed in a formula: optimism + information = hope. In this case, the informing agent was us. Granted, it may all look different in six months to a year, but it is hard not to be buoyed by the desire for positive change as articulated and advanced by Barack Obama. It is okay to hope. This time the aspiration of many will not be derided as desperation by a few, as it was during the stem cell debate of '06.
By the time you read this book, President Obama and the 111th Congress will have established federal funding for stem cell research. The dam has broken.
Just as I'd hoped. ~ Michael J. Fox

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

Is it colour?'
'Oh yes.'
'You don't let me down.You are my ambassador to pr0n, man. ~ Christopher Brookmyre

He, Jeff, and Troy Lee carried Super Soakers loaded with Grandma Lee's Vampire Cat Remedy, other Animals had garden sprayers slung on their backs, except for Gustavo, who thought that making him carry a garden sprayer was racial stereotyping. Gustavo had a flame thrower. He wouldn't say where he got it.
"Second Amendment, cabrones." (The guy who sold Gustavo his green card had included two amendments from the Bill of Rights and Gustavo had chosen Two and Four, the right to bear arms and freedom from unreasonable search and seizure. [His sister Estrella had had seizures as a child. No bueno.] For five bucks extra he threw in the Third Amendment, which Gustavo bought because he was already sharing a three-bedroom house in Richmond with nineteen cousins and they didn't have any room to quarter soldiers.) ~ Christopher Moore

I had some adventures at the White House, but hardly enough to fill a full memoir. ~ Christopher Buckley

There is no such thing as closure, and it wouldn't be worth having if it were available, because all it would mean is that something that was quite an important part of you had gone numb. ~ Christopher Hitchens

As well as being a vulgar producer of her own spectacle, and an embarrassment to her family, Cindy Sheehan is at best a shifty fantasist. ~ Christopher Hitchens

They were young and gay and the femininity of their teenage years had only recently hardened into the muscle of a competitive sexual economy. Their muscles met the demands of the city, and the city met the demands of their muscles. ~ Christopher Bollen

WE DIE. You will never hear those words spoken in a television ad. Yet this central fact of human existence colors our world and how we perceive ourselves within it. ~ Christopher Locke

But when you're a working actor - and that's what you keep saying in your head, how blessed you are to have a job - and you are working with heavyweights, working with the best guys in TV, it's pretty cool. Exhausting, but cool. ~ Christopher Meloni

Albert, friend to royalty," Beatrix said later at the Rutledge Hotel, laughing as she sat on the floor of their suite and examined the new collar. "I hope you don't get above yourself, and put on airs."
"Not around your family, he won't," Christopher said ~ Lisa Kleypas

Morning is the best time to see movies. ~ Christopher Walken

In our plain defects we already know the brotherhood of man. ~ Christopher Fry

It will be all right, Tom. Wherever we go now, whatever becomes of us, we'll be together, and it will all be all right. ~ Philip Reeve

The dead shouldn't cry, not even the lesser dead. ~ Christopher Buehlman

It's French," she said. "They designed it like a zoo - you know, keep 'em in, but give everyone a good look at 'em... ~ Christopher Moore

Tad Christopher in the Tango kitchen with real whipped cream?" "Sounds like Gay Clue, doesn't it? ~ Z.A. Maxfield

If you do your job and assume that everyone else is incompetent, you will seldom be disappointed. ~ Christopher Moore

The human brain is incredible in its capacity to heal and rewire itself. The human brain can be shaped and trained to be more resilient, calm, compassionate and alert - we can condition ourselves to be successful. Through mindfulness meditation, we can literally re-wire our brains through new experiences, which modify our neural network and our neural chemistry. Mindfulness also enhances gamma synchrony and improves the function of the human brain. ~ Christopher Dines

A third ... candidate for Shakespearean authorship was Christopher Marlowe. He was the right age (just two months older than Shakespeare), had the requisite talent, and would certainly have had ample leisure after 1593, assuming he wasn't too dead to work. ~ Bill Bryson

At Oxford one was positively encouraged to take wine during tutorials. The tongue must be untied. ~ Christopher Hitchens

The pair sat in silence: the ancient god from across the oceans who had retired, the human host of an ancient god visiting from the heavens. ~ Adam Christopher

I write about my life and my own experience, but I also write about things that I have no knowledge of whatsoever. ~ Reeve Carney

A life that partakes even a little of friendship, love, irony, humor, parenthood, literature, and music, and the chance to take part in battles for the liberation of others cannot be called 'meaningless' ... ~ Christopher Hitchens

Like love, privacy is most manifest in its absence. ~ Christopher Moore

The most powerful person in your life is the one that knows all your secrets and all your lies. ~ Christopher Titus

She's got no charisma of any kind [but] I can imagine her being mildly useful to a low-rank porn director. ~ Christopher Hitchens

Being a parent is a life sentence. You see, that's why normal people should not have children. Because, if you raise a kid with only love and support, I guarantee that kid will be in rehab by the time he is sixteen. Why ? Because you never introduced him to mister back-of-your-hand. You know why I only broke into a liquor store once ? 'Cos my father introduced me to mister back-of-his-hand. And it's wiley side-kick. Mister foot-in-my-ass. ~ Christopher Titus

The image isn't just created with the camera. That's just part one. The editor gets an imprint. The colorist does something to it. Visual effects does something to it. It's not just what you capture that people are going to see. The image gets made in many ways. In production and then in post. ~ Christopher Kenneally

Ideally, I'd like to have a movie that people like and makes money. ~ Christopher McQuarrie

How much vanity must be concealed – not too effectively at that – in order to pretend that one is the personal object of a divine plan? ~ Christopher Hitchens

This bright place isn't really a sanctuary. For, ambushed among its bottles and cartons and cans, are shockingly vivid memories of meals shopped for, cooked, eaten with Jim. They stab out at George as he passes, pushing his shopping cart. Should we ever feel truly lonely if we never ate alone? ~ Christopher Isherwood

I can claim copyright only in myself, and occasionally in those who are either dead or have written about the same events, or who have a decent expectation of anonymity, or who are such appalling public shits that they have forfeited their right to bitch. ~ Christopher Hitchens

...nothing was of value, without a mind that challenged and inquired. ~ John Christopher

An illusion has three stages.
"First there is the setup, in which the nature of what might be attempted at is hinted at, or suggested, or explained. The apparatus is seen. volunteers from the audience sometimes participate in preparation. As the trick is being setup, the magician will make use of every possible use of misdirection.
"The performance is where the magician's lifetime of practice, and his innate skill as a performer, cojoin to produce the magical display.
"The third stage is sometimes called the effect, or the prestige, and this is the product of magic. If a rabbit is pulled from a hat, the rabbit, which apparently did not exist before the trick was performed, can be said to be the prestige of that trick. ~ Christopher Priest

Locating friendship at the heart of mission involves certain assumptions
that reconciliation with God is something for which every human being is made and relationships are reciprocal. ~ Christopher Heuertz

The Republican Party once could lay claim to the mantle of being the fiscally responsible, or 'Daddy,' Party. ~ Christopher Buckley

Mills was experienced enough to understand what gay men were often forced to be in this world: romantic opportunists. ~ Christopher Bollen

And third my Dad doesn't like you.He won't tell me why
but he's a smart man.If he doesn't like you I cant like
you,either. ~ Alane Ferguson