Quotes About Awareness

The comic I can now never enjoy again is Bill Cosby. He was truly one of the first comedians I got into.

There are a lot of great disabled comedians.

There's a history of enslaved African-Americans having to make their slave masters comfortable. This business of what we call skinning and grinning - that is something African-Americans are very much cognizant of.

When you read comic material and people aren't laughing how do you know they're listening.

The first comic I ever read was an 'X-Men' themed anti-smoking PSA they gave out in health class when I was about 10.

People think that climate change is something happening to somebody else at some other time but it's coming home.

I have a strong command of what's going on in the company.

I read every single comment that comes in.

I want to be a part of films that have some kind of social comment and that will help people evolve.

I wouldn't want to be the guy who went out and won a championship in a horrible year but never made a comment on the issues that we are dealing with in our society.

I'm interested in social commentary.

'Get Out' definitely brought it to the mainstream, but you can look back at the original 'Night of the Living Dead' and that's definitely a commentary on racism.

I think I'm working on being a lot more positive in my everyday life because I realize comments and things can hurt.

That's my achievement actually - when a mother says that she didn't marry off her 14-year-old daughter because of me, or when a woman tells me that she continued to study after watching my dramas - those comments mean a lot.

There have been moments when comments have been made and because I'm strong enough to speak up about it, it's helped me. Having the strength and confidence to speak up about racism is what matters. Some people don't realise that what they are saying is wrong - they think it's acceptable.

When I became aware of how inhumane it is to test on animals, I made a commitment not to buy anything that was.

I have the common sense to know that my disability is what makes me stand out. But I don't want to be thought of as just 'the comic with cerebral palsy.'

I'm not a political person that much, but I've got common sense. I know when something's not right.

I'd have to say I've become more aware of my communal responsibility.

Whether animals admit it or not, they and I communicate.

I wanted to communicate what I had seen, so that others could see it.

When you're making the film, you don't really think the audience; it's only when you start editing that you really start to became aware of your audience because you're thinking of how you communicate these ideas, and how lucid can you be, and yet stay within the language you've established.

That's always what I've tried to do. I've tried to communicate. But at the end of the day, it's still for you to understand something. Understand that the world is bigger than you.

By listening to others, you better understand their needs and you can then better communicate with them.