Victoria Arlen Quotes

For me, Paralympic sport isn't about being the best human being. It's about being the best human being with that particular level of disability.

The disabled people that do sport, they don't think about what they don't have but try to get better with what they do have. That is the same for me.

Just because we are in wheelchairs doesn't mean we can't play a fast-paced, full-contact sport.

Paralympics... fascinating because just watching anyone with a major disability trying to do everyday chores is fun to watch.

People with disabilities are simply part of diverse communities in the U.S.

The Paralympic Games is about transforming our perception of the world.

Paralympic sport and other disability sport can and should be celebrated in its own right.

My life goal is to see the world's one billion people with disabilities embraced and encouraged by the church.

The situation in disability sport is growing, and girls like Ellie Cole are doing wonders.

The sentiment of those suggesting the Olympics and Paralympics be combined is no doubt well intentioned. But it also echoes the myth that disabled people want to be other than what we are - that we'd like nothing more than to be 'allowed in' with the able-bodied competitors.

I don't see myself as disabled. There's nothing I can't do that able-bodied athletes can do.

I would love to switch on my TV and see a disabled person talking about something they are genuinely interested in or acting out a part that doesn't just focus on their impairment.

I'm not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me. You can't possibly speak for a diverse group of people. I don't know what it's like to be an arm amputee, or have even one flesh-and-bone leg, or to have cerebral palsy.

I try to bring awareness, not just to CP but to all disabilities in the sense that it's knowledge. My disability gave me so much knowledge that I was able to take into 'Breaking Bad' and to grow and to learn.

I work with amazing organisations: I work with I'm A Performer With Disability, and I work with a clinic which tries to get opportunities for people with disabilities to work in the film and TV industry, and we're making strides, and they're making strides.

People like Ellie Simmonds, David Weir, and Hannah Cockroft have become superstars alongside the likes of Mo Farah and Jessica Ennis. I think it has changed attitudes to disability.

My mom did a great job because ever since I was born, she would put me into any type of sporting activity with hearing teams.

Paralympics has always had to push the media into it being about sport and not focusing on the disability.

I am so excited that society is taking so much interest in the disability sector and our belief in inclusion is getting so much media coverage.

The most exciting thing I've seen is directors not only being open to actors coming in the room with different abilities but actively looking at ways that the story can be enlarged with disabled actors.

There are 58 million people with some kind of disability in America, so it's the largest minority, really, in America, and it lags behind in education and economics and jobs, so outside of 'CSI' and outside of my music, I serve on a couple of boards, and I'm trying to be a part of the movement that changes this.

I didn't find out about the Paralympics until I was 18 years old. Once I found out what the Paralympics were, I was so excited to know I had a chance to represent my country and wear Team U.S.A. on my back.

I think it's phenomenal and expected that Paralympians will take on able bodied people more and more. In dressage, it happens all the time. But there are very few adaptions, and they are never allowed to give you an advantage.

I'd hope that when Channel 4 started, 'The Last Leg' was the kind of show it wanted to be putting out. I think they're really proud of it.

It's really important to remember that disability is diversity, and that disabled actors and disabilities are something that is hugely under-represented in film.