Zach Anner Quotes

You can never walk a mile in someone elses shoes, but you can walk a mile in your own and be proud of it.

You really just have to have a good attitude, challenge yourself, and you can accomplish great things.

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.

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.

No Atlantis is too underwater or fictional.

I feel that religion can be used as a tool to guide your life and help you connect with other people.

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."

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.

There's always going to be some hate on the Internet.

Writing was not my medium. I preferred to do video.

You want the world to be set up for you, but sometimes it just isn't.

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.

I have a confession: I have no faith.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

The most important thing is to have the conversation, and let people who do make mistakes feel comfortable enough to continue the conversation.

The biggest disabilities are when you sabotage yourself mentally, those personal demons that get on your shoulder and you can't shake 'em.

Nothing like quoting Silence of the Lambs for people to question what kind of disability you have.

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.

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.

I have one of the worst voices in the history of recorded time.

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.

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.

My parents and my brother instilled in me my sense of humor. That's kind of the way we communicate with each other, and it's always been a way for me to get to know people.

Spontaneity is what travel is all about.

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.

I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.

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.

My grandmother was a church organist, but we only went on Easter and Christmas Eve sometimes.

When I was five years old, I auditioned for the role of 'Tiny Tim in A Christmas Carol.'

Even when something sad or tragic happens, I find a way to look at it in a positive light. People who don't have a sense of humor must be so sad all the time.

Humor disarms people. It opens them up to starting a dialogue about things they wouldn't normally talk about. I don't understand how people who don't have a sense of humor get through life.

Depending on where my self-confidence was, growing up, I would use humor either to bring people closer, or to keep them away from certain feelings I had.