Latest Christopher Reeve Quotes from Interviews

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• I don't have to prove anything to anyone. As a result, I am ready to take up again the characters who are closer to what I really am.

  Christopher Reeve

  Character, Results, Ready

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I have no bones to pick and no fight with society. And I'm willing to be and interested in being in the mainstream of society.

  Christopher Reeve

  Fighting, Bones, Mainstream

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• People may never understand this - and perhaps I should give up caring whether they do or not - but the idea of me playing Superman is so far away from what I was brought up to aspire to.

  Christopher Reeve

  Giving Up, Caring, Ideas

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• When I first began acting, I assumed an intellectual responsibility attached to my profession, which I had accepted for a long time. My father taught me that an actor had to have a social and political conscience, and that the work that he does has to reflect from that.

  Christopher Reeve

  Father, Responsibility, Long

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Having that college-town atmosphere with a live repertory company available was a real gift. I found myself gravitating toward the theater from about the age of nine. I guess it was the environment that got me started.

  Christopher Reeve

  Real, College, Atmosphere

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I don't think actors are to blame for poor writing. The culture changes first, and the theater follows it. In the case of the movies, it's the same thing.

  Christopher Reeve

  Writing, Thinking, Culture

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  Christopher Reeve

  Vocabulary, People, Half

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Maybe one way I am original is that at heart I really am a classical actor. I haven't had my chance yet in the commercial world to show that. Movies aren't really made about classical people so much any more.

  Christopher Reeve

  Heart, People, Actors

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• The bigger the canvas, the better I do. I'm not so good at understated, kitchen-sink kinds of parts.

  Christopher Reeve

  Kitchen, Kind, Canvas

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• And if you can channel the truth of your own experience onto the stage, that's what the audience wants to see.

  Christopher Reeve

  Want, Stage, Audience

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  Christopher Reeve

  Character, Interesting, Fiction

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com