Zach Anner Quotes - Page 2

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• I thought this should be a travel show, because a lot of people with physical disabilities get discouraged.

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  People, Disability, Discouraged

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• I used to be an insult comic, and I didn't end up liking the way that I felt about myself.

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  Way, Insult, Comic

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• I talk about Breaking Bad being the most brilliant show ever, and even minor characters have subtle nuances and are fully drawn.

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  Character, Nuance, Brilliant

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• There's a whole chapter about my unfortunate manscaping accident. I was so focused on, "I've got to look this certain way and do this to be ready for this." So I missed out on a lot.

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  Looks, Way, Chapters

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• Having a son with a disability helps makes Walter White a more sympathetic character. There's no story line that shows Walt Jr. going through the things that you go through as a teenager with a disability. It's always his relationship to other characters. That was my issue with it.

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  Teenager, Character, Son

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• There was an agent who wanted to book me for Glee. He lied and said I could sing. He was like, "If you need a guy in a wheelchair who has a great voice, I've got your guy!" I was like, "What are you talking about?" .

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  Book, Talking, Voice

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• I realized that I was a really, really terrible actor. I was like, "I'd better be myself."

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  Actors, Terrible, I Realized

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• I always say, once I get in a room, I can sell myself just fine. I know that not everyone who has a disability has the social skills or cognitive skills that I do, and it may be harder for them to navigate through.

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  Skills, May, Rooms

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• I make funny shows and put a positive message out there, showing people who have body image issues that... you don't have to look a certain way.

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  Issues, People, Looks

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• I haven't spoken to Oprah herself. She had so much going on, since her network show was wrapping up at the time we were shooting. I can't fault her for that.

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  Shooting, Wrapping Up, Faults

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• Most of my work is comedy; it's meant to inspire empathy in people and help them find joy.

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  People, Empathy, Joy

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• I'm currently doing a Soul Pancake show called Top of the Monday, which is basically a good morning news show. It's just me being silly, telling people about good news that's going on in the world, putting them in the mood to start their week.

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  Monday, Morning, Silly

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• I would love to get an international version of Riding Shotgun going, because that's what I've been angling at ever since I wanted to do a travel show in the first place.

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  Riding, Firsts, Shotguns

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• When I got my Oprah money, the first thing I bought was a really nice electronic bidet toilet seat. It just feels like this is what we should be doing. For everybody who uses it, it's like there's no goin' back.

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  Nice, Toilet Seat, Use

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• I ended up [doing video] meeting Gillian [Grassie] at the same time that we were getting together a book. We ended up working on it, and she recognized that I had a flair for certain things, and we've worked through it together so that the writing could be really good. It was the perfect partnership, just finding my literary voice and figuring out how comedy translates to the written word.

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  Book, Writing, Voice

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• I had to write a comedy set and film a show at the same time. And it's the second time I've been up on stage as a stand-up comedian with untested material. I was saying it out loud for the first time that night. It didn't go how I expected, but in the best possible way.

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  Writing, Night, Comedian

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• Writing every day across nine time zones because Gillian [Grassie] was in Berlin, and we were working together via Skype. It was pretty intense. I'm really happy with how it turned out.

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  Writing, Time Zones, Working Together

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• My friends from the University of Texas. I've had the same friends for over a decade. My brother films a lot; he usually edits my Workout Wednesdays. All the people who work on my projects are amazing.

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  Workout, Brother, Texas

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• When I was a kid, I thought I would be an action-movie hero. I was like, "They're gonna be able to CGI my legs by that point." And then I realized that it was probably better if I stayed a little closer to who I actually am rather than trying to be Bruce Willis.

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  Hero, Kids, Trying

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• What's great about this hotel [Sheraton Universal Hotel in Universal City, CA] is that I stayed here for a month when I was competing on the Oprah reality show. So it's like coming home.

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  Home, Reality, Cities

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• I haven't found anything that I've wanted to say that I couldn't do through either the Internet or the reality shows that I've done.

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  Reality, Done, Internet

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• I've come to be pretty selective about the type of advocacy that I do, because I kind of feel like it's stronger to just do my work and let it speak for itself.

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  Stronger, Kind, Speak

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• I do a lot of conferences, and I did a campaign with the Cerebral Palsy Foundation called "Just Say Hi." They get celebrities to record little messages about how you start a conversation with someone who has a disability, which is to "Just say hi."

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  Foundation, Campaigns, Records

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• The thing to do is just make sure that as part of a disability community, we're not isolating ourselves by drawing differences for the sake of progress.

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  Drawing, Differences, Community

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• Everyone who was here [Sheraton Universal Hotel] when I won still works here, so the two biggest moments in my career are intersecting. It's so cool that I can say "hi" to everybody.

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  Careers, Two, Moments

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