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Most of my work is comedy it's meant to inspire empathy in people and help them find joy.
Zach Anner
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Zach Anner
Age: 40
Born: 1984
Born: November 17
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Call yourself and define your relationship to your chair the way you want to, or your disability the way you want to.
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I just love all the music. My grandma was a church organist for 40 years, and she got me into jazz music and great songwriters, Harold Arlen, George Gershwin, all those folks. I can't do it, but I have a profound respect for it.
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We'd done a couple of road trips with my big chair, and it was such a hassle if we didn't have the van with the foldout ramp. I figured: There's got to be some option that I can use on the go. Now I can go anywhere with my friends, which is a big, life-changing thing. I can sit on it for as long as I need to.
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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?
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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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You want the world to be set up for you, but sometimes it just isn't.
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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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I realized that I was a really, really terrible actor. I was like, I'd better be myself.
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Even if you have an ADA room, every disability is so different that people need different things. A lot of times they'll put something on the toilet to make it higher, and for someone transferring from their chair that's fine, but I transfer from the floor so it causes more problems.
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You can never walk a mile in someone elses shoes, but you can walk a mile in your own and be proud of it.
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I didn't feel like I was putting anything good into the world, even though it was funny. I wanted to do something more positive that would have an impact. So even when I'm doing naked push-ups or whatever, it's astounding to see how people respond to it.
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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.
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I feel that religion can be used as a tool to guide your life and help you connect with other people.
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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.
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The most important thing is to have the conversation, and let people who do make mistakes feel comfortable enough to continue the conversation.
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The biggest disabilities are when you sabotage yourself mentally, those personal demons that get on your shoulder and you can't shake 'em.
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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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Nothing like quoting Silence of the Lambs for people to question what kind of disability you have.
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There's always going to be some hate on the Internet.
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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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