With the right care at the right time, a huge number of people could stay independent much longer, with a higher quality of life.
I wear my prosthetics legs every day, and when I train in the gym, I call them my Lamborghini, because both legs and sockets, which extend up to my hips to keep the legs on via a suction seal, cost about $305,815.
When you break your pelvis, you can't do a whole lot. It took me about six weeks to be able to get out of bed. Anything you do that shakes your body is painful all over, so you can't cough, you can't sneeze, and going to the bathroom is impossible.
I've had a guide dog since 1969. Not the same one, of course: I've had five.
When humans were young, they were pushed around in strollers. When they were old, they were pushed around in wheelchairs. In between, they were just pushed around.
I would never use prosthetics. I don't like sticking things on. I don't really like wearing wigs, either.
Guide dogs for the blind. It's cruel really, isn't it? Getting a dog to lead a man round all day. Not fair on either of them.
I was born with a crippled leg. I wore a corrective shoes since I was three years old and I still wear them.
If I were blind I'd rather have another blind person leading me around because they know what I'm dealing with and they're experiencing the same things.
It's so much easier to go to the Sony movie complex when you're disabled. You take a great elevator. You get your own little private viewing area. I love it.
I'm helping people do things they haven't done since they had two good legs, and that's worth it right there.
In "Virginia Woolf" I had a thing which the grips called the paraplegic which was a wheelchair thing that I had made up years before where I could stand on this bicycle-like device and be pushed down the hall, and then step off it with a handheld camera.
