That's what I always hoped for when I became an actor - that you would do something that people can escape to, find identification with and excitement in and be able to talk about it in bars, restaurants, and workplaces.

The whole vanity aspect of building up different muscles - I have no interest.

I just do my day job and go home and plant trees.

When you are an actor every day kind of morphs into one as there is no set structure to my job.

When I ask people what they think of when they hear the term 'cerebral palsy,' I usually get one of two responses. They either think of a smiling, crumpled child in a wheelchair on a poster or commercials on late night TV with lawyers enticing parents of CP kids to sue the pants off their obstetrician.

I have a tight family group that's really important to me. I don't want to work all the time.

My family was loving... they were very supportive and very affectionate, and basically I could do what I wanted, and basically it wasn't anything dangerous, thank God.

Parents need to teach their children principles of respect and acceptance.