I realized that I was a really, really terrible actor. I was like, "I'd better be myself."

We did a book signing and people came up to me. There was an expectant mother who was like, "I think we might name our child Zach because of your work."

What I don't like about the way the media portrays religion is that they seem to weaponize it and use it as a tool to divide people.

Technically I can get out of my wheelchair and crawl around and do things, but when I've traveled and they've lost my wheelchair in transit, I feel like I need to be bound to it. My functionality and autonomy are often bound to this.

Even if you have an ADA room, every disability is so different that people need different things. A lot of times they'll put something on the toilet to make it higher, and for someone transferring from their chair that's fine, but I transfer from the floor so it causes more problems.

When I read the script [of Glee], the whole premise was that all the high school kids were being cruel to this kid in the wheelchair, and then the quarterback comes along and has a heart of gold and takes him out of a Porta Potty. That's too often what I see in media, that the characters with disabilities are there to make other people seem like heroes for treating the character with a disability with respect. Those are the kinds of roles that are out there.

No Atlantis is too underwater or fictional.