Christopher Reeve Quotes

I'm not a comedian. I can play off of people, but I'm not that guy. I don't want people being like, 'Yeah, he should have stuck with drama.' It would not be my choice to have critics mumbling that.

I'm passionate about being an actor, but I'm definitely not passionate about being a sex symbol.

I felt as if I was the brunt of some massive joke at my expense: Can you believe this loser can be connected to Marlon Brando and Katharine Hepburn? But through the years I have learned to tolerate and sometimes embrace the idea. People have asked me if I consider it an honour. Well, all it indicates is that I've been in a lot of movies with a lot of people. And besides that there are plenty of other actors that would work.

I'll never accept that I'm a sex symbol. That will mean that someone is a bit too fond of himself. If it happens, I think it's certainly going to be odd. People shouldn't see me as a sex symbol. I'm really just Henry. I'm just telling a story. I could be playing an incredibly unpleasant character who's not sexually attractive at all in my next movie. So I've no expectations at all.

If I wasn't an actor and I watched my films, I could easily be like 'This guy's a clown,' you know?

I'm not sure people even think of me as an actor at all.

I've spent various periods of my career being thought of as various things, various degrees of substance and ideas.

People call me a 'model-actress,' when I just never started with that... it's not my story.

I've long since stopped worrying about how I'm portrayed in the press because ultimately it's not that important. Everyone who knows me knows I do what I do with the greatest integrity.

I don't think the people wanna see me play Clyde Johnson the architect.

The thing of it is though that's the only way people know you, they see you in that roll and they see you in person and they only know the perception of what you are.

I'm not going to be the next Colin Farrell or Orlando Bloom.

You know, there's nothing you can do about your public image. It is what it is. I just try to do things honestly. I guess honesty is what you would call subjective: if you feel good about what you're doing, yourself, if you figure you're doing the right thing.

People often expect me to be very serious, but it's not like my record company told me not to smile in photographs, because I was like that anyway.

I'm not enough of one of those public personalities who feels as though he's been one-dimensionalized. I don't feel that strongly enough.

My public image is none of my business.

I think I was lucky to be a little older when I became famous. But still, the shock of the world starting to treat you in a weird way... I had come from the army, where we had to deal with life or death, and suddenly, people were asking whether you were cool or not. I have never cared about whether I'm cool.

I didn't go into acting because I wanted to be a role model.

I wouldn't want to be known only as a sex symbol. I wanted to be known as an actress equally or even more so.

People always think actors are really 'out there,' so you wouldn't have me pegged as one, but I knew pretty early on it was what I wanted to do, and I think that's pretty lucky.

I don't want to be known as an unprofessional actor. There was a time I was considered unprofessional, to a certain extent. I was very uncomfortable about that.

For some reason, I don't like the term 'model-turned-actress' - which is what I am, essentially.

Acting was always in the back of my head.

But the truth is, I've never wanted to be a movie star - and I've been pretty clear about that.

The idea of Kanye and vanity are like, synonymous. But I've put myself in a lot of places where a vain person wouldn't put themselves in. Like what's vanity about wearing a kilt?