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“There are two schools of thought here. On one side you have 'only disabled actors can play disabled roles' and over here you've got 'it's just acting mate, grow up' but the truth lies somewhere here in the middle of the bell curve.”
“She's really nice, charming, funny and intelligent once you get over the feeling of 'Oh my God, this is Scarlett Johansson!'”
“I've met people from across the spectrum and I think film should be the same.”
“I can behave thoroughly awfully and, at the end of the day, hold my hands up and go, 'I'm disabled, I don't know any better.' And the whole world goes, 'You're right, you're an inspiration and a hero. You go, girlfriend!'”
“It is a rough process, self-acceptance and self-love. I don't think it's a one-size-fits-all shop, and we all have good days and bad days.”
“Invasion is something I've grown up being quite accustomed to. And then I suppose it becomes a whole lesson in discernment. Who do you want to tell your story? Is this a curiosity I can answer, or is it dipping into disrespectful vaudevillian nonsense?”
“I have no interest in mediocrity.”
“If I can try to be as normal as possible and show there's nothing to fear - either on film or day to day, going round the corner to go shopping for milk - then the more people see it in wider society, the less stigma there is. If I just sit at home and mope, hugging the dog and crying, nothing's going to change.”
“I think villains are fun roles to play. If it's cleverly written and there are other motives other than just sticking a scar on someone because there is no other way to portray evil.”
“I have a genetic condition called Type 1 Neurofibromatosis. So it affects the 17th chromosome in the human genome. And it has a prevalency rating of 1 in every 2,300 births, which puts it just within the benchmarks for being classified as rare.”
“We all have our own hang-ups and I think we should be supporting each other, not throwing abuse around like you're 15 and in the playground.”
“I found out who I was by trying loads of things that I wasn't and by realizing the facade of trying to please people is equally as miserable as the loneliness.”
“You sit in all these diversity meetings and you hear the same words over and over, and you can tell when someone's being genuine and means it and when they aren't, simply by the script you get handed.”
“My brother and I were raised to live the life we've got and not mourn the one we don't have.”
“I go into everything with a clear head and a full heart and complete openness and trust.”
“Both 'Deadpool' and 'Zoolander 2' make fun out of facial disfigurement. As someone with neurofibromatosis, a condition that has caused numerous non-cancerous tumours to grow on my face, I'm interested in how comedy deals with the issue.”
“There's a lot of fear around the unknown.”
“While I'm acutely aware that justice doesn't need a modifier and that not every bad thing that happens to me is a hate crime, being abused because of how you look is not - and will never be - okay.”
“I try to stay away from tropes, or if there is a trope there, I ensure that it's cleverly written and isn't just lazy and overly cliche. I think it's made me a smarter actor and a better businessman, because I'm also an activist and I know the game; I know motives.”
“I was a lot smarter than the kids bullying me, so I'd just wind up blowing up at them. So if they said something that was a 3 on the playground Richter scale, I'd take it to an 8.”