I'm a total nerd. I love comic books and video games and most of all zombies!

Before a big acting competition, my dad sent me a note that said, 'Define the moment. Don't let the moment define you.'

It's really important to be active in your community, whatever community that is... find allies and find people who you relate to and who make you stronger as a group.

In my normal life, I do not speak with an accent. It's harder for people to realize my hearing loss in everyday life.

In the deaf community, in order to play a role of someone with a hearing loss... you have to have hearing loss.

I was born in San Antonio, TX, but moved to Lakewood, CO in elementary school. Then, I moved to Valley Center, CA in high school.

The iPad was my first splurge after I got my first paychecks. I paid off the debt, and I now bring the iPad with me to auditions.

Dream as if everything is possible.

Chasing the external to achieve joy is a death-trap for personal-development.

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.

Bittersweet is kind of my own favourite style because I want to be able to cry to the same song that I also can laugh to.

There is no university for a Christian, like that of sorrow and trial

This might be one way to start talking about differences between the early postmodern writers of the fifties and sixties and their contemporary descendants.

I'm a fun person. I like cracking jokes and being completely nerdy.

When congress is in session no American is safe.

I found myself wishing that we could live like the birds and move through nature without hurting it our ourselves.

My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework.