(on his reluctance to expose the mechanics of his acting process) It`s not that I want to pull the shutters down. It`s just that people have such a misconception about what it is I do. They think the character comes from staying in the wheelchair or being locked in the jail or whatever extravagant thing they choose to focus their fantasies on. Somehow, it always seems to have a self-flagellatory aspect to it. But that`s just the superficial stuff. Most of the movies that I do are leading me toward a life that is utterly mysterious to me. My chief goal is to find a way to make that life meaningful to other people.
- Daniel Day-Lewis(About Elizabeth Taylor): "Elizabeth has great worries about becoming a cripple because her feet sometimes have no feeling in them. She asked if I would stop loving her if she had to spend the rest of her life in a wheelchair. I told her that I didn`t care if her legs, bum and bosoms fell off and her teeth turned yellow. And she went bald. I love that woman so much sometimes that I cannot believe my luck. She has given me so much."
- Richard Burton(2005) There`s still so much more to do. I can`t sit back and be complacent, and none of us should be. I get around now in a wheelchair, but I get around.
- Elizabeth TaylorI`m not going to play a guy with MS or a guy in a wheelchair. I can play a dramatic character, certainly, but I`m not the real chameleon-type actor who, you know, changes his voice and everything.
- Owen Wilson(About Elizabeth Taylor): "Elizabeth has great worries about becoming a cripple because her feet sometimes have no feeling in them. She asked if I would stop loving her if she had to spend the rest of her life in a wheelchair. I told her that I didn`t care if her legs, bum and bosoms fell off and her teeth turned yellow. And she went bald. I love that woman so much sometimes that I cannot believe my luck. She has given me so much."
- Richard BurtonPlaying in a wheelchair is a lot harder than it looks, ... These athletes have so much courage and determination - I really admire them.
- Swin CashI`d rather drop dead in my tracks one day than end up in a wheelchair in some nursing home watching interminable replays of The King and I.
- Deborah KerrI learned to find the bright side, ... I knew I was in a wheelchair, but I was happy I was there. I had two legs, and they were going to get better.
- Angela MooreI am making everything wheelchair accessible, ... I have a shower that you can roll a wheelchair into.
- Angela MooreFor me, the wheelchair symbolizes disability in a way a cane does not.
- Annette FunicelloI`m like a cartoon! I`ll look this way when I`m eighty. I can see it now, people will be rolling me around in a wheelchair and I`ll still have my big hair, nails, my high heels and my boobs stuck out!
- Dolly PartonPity? You don`t want to be pitied because you`re a cripple in a wheelchair? Stay in your house!
- Jerry LewisIf 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.
- John EdwardsIt was physically difficult, adjusting to wheelchair life, but I remember a great relief and happiness that I was finally getting somewhere, finding musicians to work with that were sympathetic.
- Robert WyattThere are people I would like to work with. It`s a bit harder, because I live out in the sticks anyway, and plus being in a wheelchair means that I can`t really circulate. So I tend to stick to my own thing.
- Robert WyattThere was a golden retriever who saved countless lives on September 11 by going back in to find people. His companion was in a wheelchair. He got him out and kept going back in to save others.
- Linda BlairTowards the end of 2003 it was hard to get through training - and the darkest point was when a doctor told me there was a possibility I could end up in a wheelchair.
- Jonah LomuThe people who criticise you will not be the ones taking care of your legs when you are in your wheelchair. People who never drove a car in these conditions, they just don`t know.
- Alain ProstThe gun lobby finds waiting periods inconvenient. You have only to ask my husband how inconvenient he finds his wheelchair from time to time.
- Andrea GilbertThe truth was the old bleachers were really not a very good situation for someone in a wheelchair. When you build something in the 1930s, it wasn`t built to accommodate wheelchairs.
- Andy MelinIt was horrible. Trying to beat down the panic was the worst of it. I`m sitting there in my wheelchair and suddenly water starts coming through the doors, through the windows. Clinging to the side of my roof and a tree -- I would not wish that on my worst enemy.
- Ann StoneThey have no wheelchair for him, he can barely walk, he has a cast on his left leg and he`s in severe pain,
- Ariel CasilaoIf you break your leg, we`ll push you in a wheelchair,
- Barbara Coombs Lee