Still Me Christopher Reeve Quotes

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

Christopher Reeve

#2. The bigger the canvas, the better I do. I'm not so good at understated, kitchen-sink kinds of parts.

Christopher Reeve

#3. 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

#4. By reaching out, more comes back than you can possibly imagine.

Christopher Reeve

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

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

Christopher Reeve

#11. 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

#12. 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

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

Christopher Reeve

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. I have never been disabled in my dreams.

Christopher Reeve

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

Christopher Reeve

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

Christopher Reeve

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. Christopher Reeve will always be Superman in my mind.

Jason Behr

#23. 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

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

Christopher Reeve

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. 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

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

Xzibit

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

Christopher Reeve

#30. 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