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" I'm always looking for roles to challenge me and ones which I'll enjoy playing. "
RJ Mitte
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" The more you travel, the more well-off you'll be, I think. "
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" I don't really eat breakfast that often. I'm a bacon guy. I like breakfast food, but I don't really eat food until after noon, so by that time, that's not really breakfast. "
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" I always wanted to go into the military or something like that - my whole family, all my friends are either Air Force, Navy, or Marines. "
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" I've always treated money with respect, but I don't really think about money - I try to avoid it, because I don't like what money does to people. I find if you get too much money involved, people get corrupted. "
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" I grew up with a marine grandfather. I was never allowed to say 'can't' or 'no', and I was never allowed to back down. "
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" We know lots of progress is being made, but the industry must do more to help disabled people work both in front of and behind the camera. "
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" When you have a disability, people think you are weak. They think they can prey on you. "
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" I'm actually very active. "
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" I try not to look back at anything I do. I avoid it like the plague. "
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" I like to dirt bike ride, four wheeler, go-kart. "
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" One time I semi-wrecked my uncle's truck. He told me to back it up into a ditch, but my foot slipped and I gunned it a little too much. But now I use one foot, and I do not run into stuff - at least I try not to. "
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" I personally don't like school, but you have to do it if you want to get through life, so pretty much I put up with it. "
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" I try to bring awareness, not just to CP but to all disabilities in the sense that it's knowledge. My disability gave me so much knowledge that I was able to take into 'Breaking Bad' and to grow and to learn. "
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" Breaking Bad' gave me a career. It gave me more work than I could possibly imagine - I started filming it when I was 14 years old, and I finished when I was turning 21. "
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Work
" 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. "
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School
Growing Up
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" I don't really say too much to my parents. If they ask me to do something I just do it and get it out of the way. "
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" As a child, I was taught that you can achieve, and you can do anything you want. "
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" I feel bad for people in wheelchairs and people who have to use crutches. "
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" My sister is a mess. I love her to death, but she is a mess. "
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" My parents got divorced when I was nine months old, and my father would only pop in and see me once a year, if that. I don't have much contact with him. "
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" I spent a long time away from my parents when I was younger. I would go hunting and fishing with my uncle, and we would go for weeks at a time. I also spent a lot of time in Texas with my grandparents. "
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" With moderate physical training, you can control anything in your body. You don't have to be an athlete to do it, and this isn't just about people with disabilities - it's about everyone. You just have to have the willpower, the mindset, and the desire to want to better yourself. "
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" I was eight when I found out I was adopted. My step-brother told me. He'd overheard my mum and my stepdad at the time talking about it, and he threw it in my face. But I didn't really care. It didn't seem relevant, because I never once in my life felt unloved or like I was a burden. "
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" People used to call the Paralympics the 'Special Olympics.' These men and women are athletes. They are warriors. They are people who are not confined by what they have been given. It's amazing to see where, and how far, the human body can really go. "
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" I work with amazing organisations: I work with I'm A Performer With Disability, and I work with a clinic which tries to get opportunities for people with disabilities to work in the film and TV industry, and we're making strides, and they're making strides. "
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" It's difficult to learn to play these different disabled characters - Campbell in 'Switched At Birth' was paralysed from the waist down - but it's nice to be able to step into their world and live in these characters' shoes and to be able to play them, because it gives you a different look at life. "
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