- Christopher Reeve: I was a sailor. I was a skier. I was a rider. I traveled everywhere. And you realize that is not the definition or the essence of your existence. What is the essence are your relationships.
- Self - Matthew and Alexandra's Mother: It was the accident that brought us closer together without a shadow of a doubt.
- Christopher Reeve: Think about it in emotional terms: What is it to be an orphan? What is it to be different? What is it to be an alien? What is it to have lost one's home? Now you're acting something you can understand.