Christopher Reeve Quotes

Many may look at me and see mostly what I have lost. I struggle to speak, my eyesight's not great, my right arm and leg are paralyzed, and I left a job I loved representing southern Arizona in Congress.

Everyone has setbacks. I'm no different. I happen to have no legs. That's pretty much the fact.

It 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.

I have understood by observing blind people that they are very confident. They don't see themselves as suffering from a disability.

Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thing well, you're needed by someone.

They see me wheeling around in a beautiful gown, and they realize you can look elegant, and you can lead a happy life in a wheelchair. I know I've helped handicapped people, because I've received many comments.

I am not the paraplegic seated permanently in his chair or the able-bodied person on her feet. Identity for a hemiplegic is a shifty thing.

You know, some people think since I can't move I am a vegetable. Wrong. Just picture yourself as you are, just always sitting down and if you need something a hot babe takes care of you. I am exaggerating a little, but this is how I see it.

Disability should not be considered a hindrance to achieving one's goals.

I don't know what it's like to be an arm amputee, or have even one flesh-and-bone leg, or to have cerebral palsy. I don't speak for such huge and diverse groups. What I've tried to do, what I've been fortunate to do, is to live my live and create my life as I've wanted to create it.

I don't want anyone to feel they can't achieve their ambitions if they are dyslexic.

I don't think of myself as being disabled, or able-bodied.

I took my sight and mobility for granted.

Pity? You don't want to be pitied because you're a cripple in a wheelchair? Stay in your house!

It's society that disables an individual by not investing in enough creativity to allow for someone to show us the quality that makes them rare and valuable and capable.

For me, disability is a way of getting some extremity, some kind of very difficult situation, that throws an interesting light on people.

If we see someone in a wheelchair, we assume they cannot walk. It may be that they can walk three, four, five steps. That, to them, means they can walk.

We all learn how to use the bodies we're born with, or learn to use them in an adjusted state, whether those bodies are considered disabled or not.

The thing about living with any disability is that you adapt; you do what works for you.

A handicap is only if you let it be a handicap.

Every person with a disability is an individual.

People with disabilities can grow up thinking they have a weakness because they are told, You will never do this properly; you will never walk properly or talk properly.' That's all they hear. But you have to look past that.

To be able to wear your country's colors and compete in the Paralympics for the snowboard team... it's pretty powerful.

I've had lots of fans who come out and say, 'Listen, I can relate to Cyborg because I lost a limb,' or 'I have this cochlear implant.' It's one of those things when you actually start seeing it, when you actually start hearing about it, that made Cyborg more relevant to me than I think he ever had been up until that point.

Diversity is not only color, but it also includes individuals with disabilities.