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.Collection: Love
When I first began acting, I assumed an intellectual responsibility attached to my profession, which I had accepted for a long time. My father taught me that an actor had to have a social and political conscience, and that the work that he does has to reflect from that.Collection: Father
There is no such thing as can't.Collection: Inspiring
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.Collection: Inspirational
America is better when all of us take care of all of us.Collection: America
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.Collection: Hero
When we turn our attention away from ourselves, our potential is limitless.Collection: Attention
I remember telling a neurosurgeon, "Don't give me too much information, because at the moment my ignorance is my best asset."Collection: Ignorance
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.Collection: Way
I get pretty impatient with people who are able-bodied but are somehow paralyzed for other reasons.Collection: People
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.Collection: Vocabulary
You can do anything you think you can.Collection: Perseverance
Every scientist should remove the word 'impossible' from their lexicon.Collection: Lexicon
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.Collection: Advice
By reaching out, more comes back than you can possibly imagine.Collection: Imagine
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.Collection: Real
there is a relationship between the mind and the body that can both create a physical condition and enable us to recover from itCollection: Mind
What can I do today to take a step forward?Collection: Today
I don't think actors are to blame for poor writing. The culture changes first, and the theater follows it. In the case of the movies, it's the same thing.Collection: Writing
I have never been disabled in my dreams.Collection: Dream
Living a life with meaning means spreading the word. Even if you can't move, you can have a powerful effect with what you say.Collection: Powerful
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.Collection: Ideas
And if you can channel the truth of your own experience onto the stage, that's what the audience wants to see.Collection: Want
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.Collection: Wall
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.Collection: Real
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.Collection: Character
The bigger the canvas, the better I do. I'm not so good at understated, kitchen-sink kinds of parts.Collection: Kitchen
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.Collection: Heart
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.Collection: Character
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.Collection: Giving Up
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.Collection: Fighting