A hero is someone who, in spite of weakness, doubt or not always knowing the answers, goes ahead and overcomes anyway.
Some people are walking around with full use of their bodies and they’re more paralyzed than I am.
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.
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.
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.
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.
If I can laugh, I can live.
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.
I am a very lucky guy. I can testify before Congress. I can raise funds. I can raise awareness.
The bigger the canvas, the better I do. I’m not so good at understated, kitchen-sink kinds of parts.
Even if your body doesn’t work the way it used to, the heart and the mind and the spirit are not diminished.
Don’t give up. Don’t lose hope. Don’t sell out.
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.
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.
Either you vegetate and look out a window, or activate and try to effect change.
You play the hand you’re dealt. I think the game’s worthwhile.
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.
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.
I’ve still never had a dream that I’m disabled. Never.
If you don’t have a vision, nothing happens.