Christopher Reeve

I never said I will stand, I said I hoped to stand. It wasn’t a prediction.

Christopher Reeve

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

Christopher Reeve

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Christopher Reeve

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

Christopher Reeve