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.
Once you choose hope, anything’s possible.
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.
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.
In the face of adversity, hope often comes in the form of a friend who reaches out to us.
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.
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.
Your body is not who you are. The mind and spirit transcend the body.
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.
Never accept ultimatums, conventional wisdom, or absolutes.
To be able to feel the lightest touch really is a gift.
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.
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.
Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean.
I am optimistic. But I also know that, with time, I’m beginning to fight issues of aging as well as long-term paralysis.
Pain is inevitable. Misery is a choice.
You’ve got to give more than you take.
Even though I don’t personally believe in the Lord, I try to behave as though He was watching.
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.
Don’t put a limit on what can be accomplished.