My best friend is disabled. There's nothing he hates more than being left out of the jokes, to be treated with kid gloves. That's the insult.
Britain's way of dealing with disability is just to try and pretend it's not happening. A swift sweep under the carpet.
A lot of times, we look at people who have disabilities as, 'Oh, we can't invite these people here or there.' And I hate that, because it's inappropriate. It's so weird to me when people say they don't have friends who have disabilities.
I think a person who is disabled should be disabled by no act of their own. If you become disabled because of alcoholism, drugs, or things of that nature, I do not think those conditions qualify someone to be called disabled. I think those conditions result from personal decisions.
The arrogance of the able-bodied is staggering. Yes, maybe we'd like to be able to get places quickly, and carry things in both hands but only because we have to keep up with the rest of you ... We would rather be just like us, and have that be all right.
He that mockes a cripple, ought to be whole.
Disability is as visual as race. If a wheelchair user can't play Beyonce, then Beyonce can't play a wheelchair user.
A lot of people don't want to hire disabled actors. They think you're going to take twice as long over a shot, or they don't want have to put up a ramp for disabled access. They think, 'Why would I do that when I can just hire an able-bodied actor to play the disabled character?'
Being deaf or having any disability is not tragic. But the stereotypes about it are tragic.
It's undeniable that what we are taught as a culture to believe about disability is at odds with traditional notions of masculinity.
Why do we let blind people and people in wheelchairs become citizens? I feel sorry for cripples, but that doesn't mean I want them in my country.
I didn't know anything was wrong with me when I was growing up. I thought everyone went to occupational and speech therapy, I thought these were common things. I thought I was quite normal until I went to school and someone told me it wasn't normal to have a disability.
What is the difference between an actress over 50 and an actress with a disability? Nothing. They both can't find work.
Ah, the patter of little feet around the house. There's nothing like having a midget for a butler.
I have two dogs. If I had retarded children, I'd be a hero. And yet, the dogs are pretty much the same thing.
I don't want to see myself as this sad, disabled girl. I know that. I don't want other people to see me as that, either.
You never make fun of anybody with a club foot or a withered arm, but it's open season on anybody who stutters.
Look, calling somebody in a wheelchair handicapable doesn't all of a sudden give them the power to climb stairs or the ability to grab Ho-Hos off the top shelf.
Although there exist many thousand subjects for elegant conversation, there are persons who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet.
People didn't always see a person with a disability who had to use a ramp or elevator as people who have been given unnecessary privileges. But I run into that often now. People are saying, 'Why do we have to go to great expense for these people?'
I hate the words 'handicapped' and 'disabled'. They imply that you are less than whole. I don't see myself that way at all.
Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason
All the other children at my school are stupid. Except I'm not meant to call them stupid, even though this is what they are.
Is America ready for a black president? Well, I say we just had a retarded one. When did being black become a bigger deterrent than being retarded?
Let the straight-limbed laugh at the club-footed, the white skinned at the blackamoor.
