136 Quotes by Christopher Reeve

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

You can do anything you think you can.

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.

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).

Never accept ultimatums, conventional wisdom, or absolutes.

Even if your body doesn't work the way it used to, the heart and the mind and the spirit are not diminished.

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.

If I can laugh, I can live.

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.