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I have a confession: I have no faith.
Humour allows people to exhale a little.
Spontaneity is what travel is all about.
No Atlantis is too underwater or fictional.
I'm down for adventure and up for anything.
Writing was not my medium. I preferred to do video.
There's always going to be some hate on the Internet.
Most people are really dedicated to doing good things.
I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.
I have one of the worst voices in the history of recorded time.
Even the most embarrassing mishap can be spun into comedic gold.
You want the world to be set up for you, but sometimes it just isn't.
When I get real excited, my muscles go into spasm, so they just shake.
My family is weird in a very good way because I was always exposed to the arts.
I've always wanted to do a travel show for people who never thought they could.
When I was five years old, I auditioned for the role of 'Tiny Tim in A Christmas Carol.'
New Yorkers - the people are so honest. If you're sucking on stage, they'll let you know.
I used to be an insult comic, and I didn't end up liking the way that I felt about myself.
Most of my work is comedy; it's meant to inspire empathy in people and help them find joy.
I realized that I was a really, really terrible actor. I was like, "I'd better be myself."
My grandmother was a church organist, but we only went on Easter and Christmas Eve sometimes.
Religion is such an important part of so many people's lives, and I don't understand it at all.
My parents instilled in me a sense of self that I was more than just a diagnosis or a condition.
Nothing like quoting Silence of the Lambs for people to question what kind of disability you have.
When I got my Oprah money, the first thing I bought was a really nice electronic bidet toilet seat.
I feel that religion can be used as a tool to guide your life and help you connect with other people.
We've all got hurdles we have to overcome, and mine are not necessarily any bigger than anyone else's.
You really just have to have a good attitude, challenge yourself, and you can accomplish great things.
The only two characters I can play convincingly are myself and a dumber and sweeter version of myself.
You can never walk a mile in someone elses shoes, but you can walk a mile in your own and be proud of it.
I thought this should be a travel show, because a lot of people with physical disabilities get discouraged.
Call yourself and define your relationship to your chair the way you want to, or your disability the way you want to.
For me, cerebral palsy wasn't the biggest deal, because I always had it. You know, you always work with what you got.
Over the years, I've learned that a sense of humor is the only skill that allows you to turn sucking at life into a career.
There's no denying it: I was a crappy baby who failed his way into this world, and I've been making the best of it ever since.
I talk about Breaking Bad being the most brilliant show ever, and even minor characters have subtle nuances and are fully drawn.
What I don't like about the way the media portrays religion is that they seem to weaponize it and use it as a tool to divide people.
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.
I'm not saying 'I have cerebral palsy, pay attention to me.' We all have problems, and we have to figure out how to live our best life.
I don't subscribe to the idea that if you don't have the body you want, you can't be proud of the body you have. I think you can do both.
The biggest disabilities are when you sabotage yourself mentally, those personal demons that get on your shoulder and you can't shake 'em.
Religion is something we don't talk about, and it is used by uneducated people as a weapon to divide us as opposed to connect with each other.
The most important thing is to have the conversation, and let people who do make mistakes feel comfortable enough to continue the conversation.
My childhood was great because my family has an amazing sense of humor, and it was just all making videos and jokes and doing skits and things.
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.
You may not have a physical impairment, but you have things, whether it's finances, self-esteem, it doesn't matter. It's cut from the same cloth.
I think you can feel good about yourself at any size and any shape. Nobody should be made to feel inferior because they have a certain body type.
We did a book signing and people came up to me. There was an expectant mother who was like, "I think we might name our child Zach because of your work."
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.
A lot of the time, when people meet someone in a wheelchair, or with some disability, it's the first thing they notice, but they don't know how to react.