Top 92 Quotes About Christopher Reeve
#1. Picture yourself crushin' Xzibit with your tough talk?
That's like Christopher Reeve doing the crip walk.
Xzibit
#2. 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
#3. I became very close with Charles Bronson and his wife, Kim. We did 'Sea Wolf' together along with Christopher Reeve. I've been lucky enough to work with some amazing, legendary actors. I worked with Rod Steiger twice, for instance.
Catherine Mary Stewart
#4. 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
#5. What can you say about such a man as Christopher Reeve? He embodied all the best that a human being can hope to be.
Annette O'Toole
#6. Who's judging American Idol? Paula Abdul? Paula Abdul judging a singing contest is like Christopher Reeve judging a dance contest!
Chris Rock
#7. I was in two episodes playing Christopher Reeve's character's emissary. They wanted to have my character announce Dr Swan's death, which I thought was exploitative.
Margot Kidder
#8. 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
#9. When I was eleven, I got cast in the last directorial project of Christopher Reeve.
Vanessa Marano
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. Even if the Bush Administration had flung open the gates to stem-cell research years ago, we would not be at the point of offering treatment today. Christopher Reeve would still have been taken from us. But we would be closer.
Patti Davis
#14. Christopher Reeve understood that ... everything begins with hope. His vision of walking again, his belief that he would be able to in his lifetime, towered over his broken body.
Patti Davis
#15. Christopher Reeve will always be Superman in my mind.
Jason Behr
#16. We were totally opposite - me coming from the West Coast and a junior college, and him [ Christopher Reeve] from the hard-core Ivy League. He used to be the studly studly of all studlies, and I was the little fool ferret boy.
Robin Williams
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. In the face of adversity, hope often comes in the form of a friend who reaches out to us.
Christopher Reeve
#20. 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
#21. 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.
Christopher Reeve
#22. At first, dreams seem impossible, then improbable, and eventually inevitable.
Christopher Reeve
#24. I remember telling a neurosurgeon, "Don't give me too much information, because at the moment my ignorance is my best asset."
Christopher Reeve
#25. The key to success is letting the relationships in your life grow to the highest levels they possibly can ... not putting yourself first in life and remembering that the more you give away, the more you have.
Christopher Reeve
#26. 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.
Christopher Reeve
#27. 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
#28. Some people are walking around with full use of their bodies and they're more paralyzed than I am.
Christopher Reeve
#29. 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
#30. I'm not living the life I thought I would lead, but it does have meaning, purpose. There is love ... there is joy ... there is laughter.
Christopher Reeve
#31. 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.
Christopher Reeve
#32. I get pretty impatient with people who are able-bodied but are somehow paralyzed for other reasons.
Christopher Reeve
#34. You should take some responsibility for the way you present yourself. But you should not be hung up on your looks, whether you are ugly or handsome, because it isn't an achievement.
Christopher Reeve
#36. There is a relationship between the mind and the body that can both create a physical condition and enable us to recover from it
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#37. I'm starting a new chapter in my [[life], and you have no idea how much that means.
Christopher Reeve
#39. Every scientist should remove the word 'impossible' from their lexicon.
Christopher Reeve
#40. Your body is not who you are. The mind and spirit transcend the body.
Christopher Reeve
#41. Either you choose to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out into the ocean.
Christopher Reeve
#42. 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
#45. 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
#46. 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
#47. And if you can channel the truth of your own experience onto the stage, that's what the audience wants to see.
Christopher Reeve
#48. Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean.
Christopher Reeve
#50. 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
#51. We have a government that, generally speaking, does not respond to the people.
Christopher Reeve
#53. I learned years ago to come to terms with having so much done for me by others.
Christopher Reeve
#55. 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.
Christopher Reeve
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. 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.
Christopher Reeve
#59. A hero is an ordinary person doing things in an extra ordinary way.
Christopher Reeve
#60. 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
#61. You should have a dream and absolutely go for it. Don't let anybody say you can't do it.
Christopher Reeve
#62. Success is finding satisfaction in giving a little more than you take.
Christopher Reeve
#63. A Hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.
Christopher Reeve
#64. If we don't dream of the possible,
the possible never happens.
Christopher Reeve
#65. 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
#66. 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
#67. 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.
Christopher Reeve
#68. 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
#69. Either you vegetate and look out a window, or activate and try to effect change.
Christopher Reeve
#70. Misfortune can force you into doing things you should be doing anyway. Lessons come from adversity. Anything can happen to anyone ... You can find a new lease on life - more meaning than you thought possible in simple things ... Let go. Live in the moment. Go forward.
Christopher Reeve
#71. 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.
Christopher Reeve
#76. 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
#77. I never said I will stand, I said I hoped to stand. It wasn't a prediction.
Christopher Reeve
#78. It's defeatist to harp on what might have been, and yet, it's hard to resist considering what might have been.
Christopher Reeve
#80. A hero is someone who, in spite of weakness, doubt or not always knowing the answers, goes ahead and overcomes anyway.
Christopher Reeve
#81. You play the hand you're dealt. I think the game's worthwhile.
Christopher Reeve
#82. Even though I don't personally believe in the Lord, I try to behave as though He was watching.
Christopher Reeve
#83. I am a very lucky guy. I can testify before Congress. I can raise funds. I can raise awareness.
Christopher Reeve
#84. 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.
Christopher Reeve
#85. 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
#86. 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.
Christopher Reeve
#87. 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.
Christopher Reeve
#89. The bigger the canvas, the better I do. I'm not so good at understated, kitchen-sink kinds of parts.
Christopher Reeve
#90. 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.
Christopher Reeve
#91. By reaching out, more comes back than you can possibly imagine.
Christopher Reeve
#92. 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
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