The best way to compel weak-minded people to adopt our opinion, is to frighten them from all others, by magnifying their danger.
I realized that I was a really, really terrible actor. I was like, "I'd better be myself. "
There's a tendency to treat anyone with a physical disability as inspiring. I call it a pedestal of prejudice, in that you're lifting people up to dismiss them. My whole thing is bringing us down to everyone else's level and saying we're all the same. The struggle is the same.
You want the world to be set up for you, but sometimes it just isn't.
I think that's where it comes into play, when you are just looking at a document or whatever and you see the word "disability. " Does that automatically trigger something in you that denies someone their personhood?
When I read the script [of Glee], the whole premise was that all the high school kids were being cruel to this kid in the wheelchair, and then the quarterback comes along and has a heart of gold and takes him out of a Porta Potty. That's too often what I see in media, that the characters with disabilities are there to make other people seem like heroes for treating the character with a disability with respect. Those are the kinds of roles that are out there.
If everything was perfect, it would always be a person-first conversation, but whenever I have the opportunity, I lead with my personality. If they're looking and seeing the disability first or the chair first, I know that I have the ability to change that.
My purpose holds to sail beyond the sunset and the baths of all the Western stars until I die.
I'm so proud to be on a Kate Bush record; she's always marched to the beat of her own drum.
For you it is possible to do anything; the only thing impossible for you to do is to do wrong, inasmuch as you are knowledge and justice and love.
Honestly, I am pretty passionate about avoiding failure!