"It's defeatist to harp on what might have been, and yet, it's hard to resist considering what might ..." — Christopher Reeve

We have a government that, generally speaking, does not respond to the people.

I did my first apprenticeship when I was 15, then joined the union when I was 17. I worked every summer in high school and college.

It never occurred to me that I was a leading man until I was 19 years old. I had been acting since I was 10, so that's nine years and 30 or 40 plays, in school and summer stock, professional theater, too.

I never said I will stand, I said I hoped to stand. It wasn't a prediction.