Maternal instinct, merely as an instinct, is unworthy of our superstitious reverence.
I used to be an insult comic, and I didn't end up liking the way that I felt about 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.
The incidence of memory is like light from dead stars whose influence lingers long after the events themselves.
You work with seasoned actors, and sometimes you realize that they phone it in.
Tea is nought but this: first you heat the water, then you make the tea. Then you drink it properly. That is all you need to know.
Music, I think, he makes me feel like music