“I'm not living the life I thought I would lead, but it does have meaning, purpose. There is love… there is joy… there is laughter.”
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Christopher Reeve 18
actor, director, producer, screenwriter 1952–2004Related quotes

Source: Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential

Video farewell (2002)
Context: I have lived my whole life on the stage and screen before you. I found purpose and meaning in your response. For an actor that is no greater loss than the loss of his audience. I can part the Red Sea, but I can't part with you, which is why I won't exclude you from this stage in my life.
For now, I'm not changing anything. I will insist on work when I can; the doctors will insist on rest when I must. If you see a little less spring in my step, if your name fails to leap to my lips, you will know why. And if I tell you a funny story for the second time, please laugh anyway.

“My purpose in performing is to communicate the joy I experience in living. ”

“I never would have thought being high in a zoo would lead to that.”
Talking about the character of Goat Boy, in an interview on Mancow's Morning Madhouse
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