Reeve Quotes

"Chris Reeve will always be Superman in my mind."

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.

Who`s judging American Idol? Paula Abdul? Paula Abdul judging a singing contest is like Christopher Reeve judging a dance contest!

(on Superman (1978) star Christopher Reeve after meeting him at the 1979 Academy Awards) This is our new man. He`s taking over.

I was in two episodes playing Christopher Reeve`s character`s emissary. They wanted to have my character announce Dr Swan`s death, which I thought was exploitative.

I`ve been involved with the Creative Coalition since shortly after the founding by (actor) Ron Sliver and (actress) Susan Sarandon and (actor) Christopher Reeve. I love to really roll up my sleeves and get my hands dirty on any level when it comes to these sorts of issues, (i.e. gun control, freedom of speech) on a grass roots level or a clerical level. I love to educate myself and others and help raise awareness on important issues. I love to utilize my celebrity status in a responsible and constructive and substantive manner. I like to get my hands dirty rather than a photo op."

If we do the work that we can do in this country, the work that we will do when John Kerry is President, people like Christopher Reeve will get up out of that wheelchair and walk again.

And yet I think of Christopher Reeve who said he would pay two million dollars to be able to feel pain again. What a courageous man! So I have to think that pain is a blessing.

(on Christopher Reeve) What seemed such a nice, simple, artless performance in "Superman" was the finest kind of acting. Reeve`s timing -- and humor -- has to be just about perfect to make the character come off.

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.

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.