Words matter. These are the best Zach Anner Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Religion is such an important part of so many people’s lives, and I don’t understand it at all.
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.
We’ve all got hurdles we have to overcome, and mine are not necessarily any bigger than anyone else’s.
I’ve always wanted to do a travel show for people who never thought they could.
I’d wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.
I use an electric wheelchair because I have no sense of balance, and muscle spasticity has arched my spine like a cat’s, while my legs are really just for show.
I want to make sure that people know that I can only be myself – I can’t be a spokesperson for people with disabilities, because everybody has a completely different experience. I’m glad that I’m able to inspire parents to see one way to deal with it, but at the same time, I tell a lot of dirty jokes.
It’s ridiculous that we are in a place where we feel like we can classify and dismiss certain groups of people just because of the way they look, or we have these standards of health – like, cellulite is something you need to get rid of. No, it isn’t. It’s just a part of people’s bodies.
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.
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 instilled in me a sense of self that I was more than just a diagnosis or a condition.
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.
Talking to people is important to me as someone who has cerebral palsy. I know what it’s like to have people not talking to me because they are scared they would ask the wrong question, but I would rather have an honest dialogue as long as it comes from an honest place.
My best advice to anybody who has a child with a disability is to really find the tools for that person to thrive and find what their true passions are, because the rest will follow.
For me, cerebral palsy wasn’t the biggest deal, because I always had it. You know, you always work with what you got.
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.
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.
I was basically the person at Disney World that was in charge of clearing the park when it was closed… I was the guy… telling them to ‘get the hell out and have a magical day.’
I’d love to be ‘People Magazine’s Sexiest Man Alive, but I think that that’s a ways off. I have to stop wearing sweat pants, and then we’ll work on that.
The only two characters I can play convincingly are myself and a dumber and sweeter version of myself.
I want to find a way to speak to the broadest audience possible.
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.
I have one of the worst voices in the history of recorded time.
New Yorkers – the people are so honest. If you’re sucking on stage, they’ll let you know.
When I got my Oprah money, the first thing I bought was a really nice electronic bidet toilet seat.
People tend to treat people with disabilities sort of like they’re aliens from another planet. It doesn’t come from a bad place; it comes from a place of, ‘I have no idea what this disability entails, and I don’t want to offend anyone or make them feel awful.’
When people think of me, I want them to think of a travel show host who’s really funny and good at his job, and I think eventually the CP won’t even play into it, or at least that’s the goal.
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.
When I was five years old, I auditioned for the role of ‘Tiny Tim in A Christmas Carol.’
Most people are really dedicated to doing good things.
