Top 51 Quotes & Sayings by Dana Reeve
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actress Dana Reeve.
Last updated on November 21, 2024.
I would like to record. I would like to do some cabaret acts.
If I feel down, I can do what I've always done - go see a friend, walk the dog, have a cup of tea.
I value my family more than anything. That's always paramount.
Chris' absence is very much felt. There's just a huge void in our home life.
Christopher pushed the boundaries beyond anything anyone could expect from any human being.
Mv mother was so literate and literary.
Chris had the unique and rare opportunity to be shown during his lifetime how many friends he has and how much they care.
There are moments when the grief comes bubbling up. The first time I saw Chris's chair empty, that was really hard. And it was hard when I started folding up some of his sweaters that I so imagine him wearing.
Chris was very comfortable in the public eye and thrived in that kind of environment. I, less so.
Life is full of risks, and you don't want to raise someone who's afraid of taking risks, either physically or emotionally.
I made a vow to Chris when we married that I'd love him and I'd be with him in sickness and in health and I did OK with that.
Superman is a traditional archetype in our culture, this all-powerful but benign doer of good, protector and friend. If he could succumb to the frailties of mortal man, what's to become of the rest of us?
We both felt it was important for us to remain a couple. I didn't want to be just his nurse.
I don't live in the city, I don't work in a high-risk environment, and I am not a smoker. So it was never anything that would occur to me that I would get lung cancer, but the more I have learned about lung cancer is that it is becoming much more random, and it is striking women who are under 50 and are non-smokers and not in a risk environment.
Chris and I used to say, when he had his accident, 'Well, this is probably the worst thing that's ever happened to either one of us, but at least we had each other to go through it with.'
Christopher believed that to overcome any adversity, no matter how challenging, you need to go forward each day with strength, determination and compassion.
As a caregiver, I always thought I had empathy for Chris's situation, and certainly one family member's disability affects the whole family dynamic in myriad ways. But as I go through various tests and discomforts and uncertainty about the future that cancer can bring, I feel a strong, visceral connection to what Chris went through.
Working on problems and self-examination is a sign of strength.
I took the marriage vows very seriously, as did Chris. You're there - sickness, health - I mean, really. And you don't take those vows until you can say it and mean it.
In the mornings I drop my son off at school and then head to work. I am done at work by 2:00 P. M. and can head home.
I think Chris' favorite role was in 'Remains of the Day,' which was the Merchant Ivory film that he shot not long before his accident, a couple years before. He loved working with Merchant Ivory.
I'm a big girl. I prioritize. I want to be acting, I want to be singing, but there will be time for that.
Chris didn't only leave a legacy of work. He left a legacy of love.
I've learned a lot about grief, that it really is something that goes in cycles.
The public knows me through my life, which is not comical. But I feel very at home in comedy.
I'm a very famous wife but I'm still plodding along in my career.
Sacrifice always seems to imply a bitterness attached to it. But I don't feel bitter about the choices I've made. Yes, I sacrifice a job because I made certain family decisions, but I don't regret it.
But TV and movie schedules are always easier than a theater schedule, if you have a family.
Hope is a real thing. It's not pie in the sky.
I am an actress and I do have to make a living.
I get little moments all the time, all I want to do is call my mom.
I am working as a co-host on a show called, 'Lifetime Live.' It's on the Lifetime cable network. My co-host is Deborah Roberts. She's a news correspondent with 20/20. We are billed as a news and information show. It's fun.
I think the idea of time travel is very seductive.
I believe that the healthy people go to therapy. It is the real lunatics who avoid it.
I'm definitely not a saint.
There's not a lot of creativity when you're dealing with a disability, there's not a lot of freedom and spontaneity.
I feel freedom in singing and performing.
We have home movies of Chris playing the piano with Will on his lap. One of the things that made my life so full was putting Will to bed and hearing Chris downstairs improvising.
With grief, you know, the only way to get through it is through it.
Chris, boy, was he ever resilient, and was he ever someone who would never give up and had tremendous discipline, and he set goals and met them.
There's a formula Chris and I used all the time. When you least feel like it, do something for someone else. You forget about your own situation. It gives you a purpose, as opposed being sorrowful and lonely. It makes me feel better when things are too hard for me.
I thought, if I was going to date an actor, I wanted a real actor.
I learned a long time ago life just isn't fair, so you better stop expecting it to be.
Be brave. Be open-minded. Be kind. Be forgiving. Be generous. Be optimistic. Be grateful for the many unexpected lessons you will learn. Find the joy inside the hardship. It's there. I assure you. And, too, be open to inspiration from unlikely sources.
When you least feel like it, do something for someone else. You forget about your own situation. It gives you a purpose, as opposed being sorrowful and lonely.
Just when you think you're coming out and you think, 'OK, I see the light at the end of the tunnel,' then I got this diagnosis.
Most of the time I think we're really pretty positive and optimistic, and we're so lucky to have the life that we have and had with him.
We have become accustomed to living our life with joy amidst pain and challenges.
You have to celebrate the gifts because life is so hard and I think once you realize life's gonna be hard, the good stuff really comes forward.
Some of the choices in life will choose you. How you face those choices, these turns in the road, with what kind of attitude, more than the choices themselves, is what will define the context of your life.
It is so important as a caregiver not to become so enmeshed in the role that you lose yourself. It's neither good for you nor your loved one.
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