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" It sounds corny, but I wanted to be the change I wanted to see in the world. I used to have that on my notebook in school. "

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" I remember just calling myself gay was a big step for me, and I remember being in the bathroom brushing my teeth, testing out to myself in the mirror, saying, 'I am gay,' and seeing if the world was going to stop or if the ceiling would fall in on me. "

" I had no idea what being on stage would be like or how I'd react to the applause. I didn't think I deserved their applause. Then I realized I'd done something to make them feel something. That made it okay. But it was weird. A nice weird. "

" It's 'Star Trek!' It's as close to an American mythology as we get. To be a part of that storytelling after being a fan since I was a teenage boy who saw the pilot episode of 'Next Generation' air, it's all very surreal. "

" As a fan of the franchise, I count myself among the countless LGBTQ fans who have longed to see themselves and our relationships depicted on 'Star Trek.' "

" I remember watching the premiere of the pilot episode of 'Next Gen' when I was a teenager. "

" I was 19, 20. I didn't know what to do. I knew one thing: I never saw myself on TV or anyone like me, and I wanted to be that for someone else. I think the most courageous thing I did was ask for help. "

" I hope that upon this scorched earth we have planted the seeds of ideas that will bear the fruit of more diverse and inclusive stories that include people of color in the LGBT community. "

" I am honored to be receiving the Point Courage Award. "

" I like to bring a level of vulnerability and real humanity to the characters I play when appropriate, and I feel like Dr. Culber lives pretty comfortably in that vulnerable world, but he's a professional first. "

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" I don't think it's exaggeration or hyperbole to say that Pedro Zamora changed the world. "

" When you were a teenager, everything's kind of drawn in primary colors; everything's big, and everything's life or death. "

" I don't think that there's any shame at all in doing what you have to do in order to survive, to make money while you continue to pursue your dreams. "

" The seeds of marriage equality... were planted on MTV. "

" The work that needs to be done now is to diversify the picture of LGBTQ people so that people can see that we come from all races, different genders; we have trans people. "

" I came out to my dad in Christmas of '94. "

" My advice would be to look at the things you do to make money as ways to inform your work in the end. If our work is to study the human condition, most humans that we are going to be playing aren't going to be artists, so go out and, as I did, learn what it's like to have a 9-to-5 job... Think of it as character study. "

" The thing about me and school was that as much as I felt that I didn't belong, as long as I was on a stage or dancing, that's where I excelled the most, felt worthy. "

" When I got the appetite for more and more theatre, all I could think of was trying to get back to New York. "

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" It's important that we continue to uplift and strengthen our LGBTQ youth who are the future of our community and remind them that their voices are heard. "

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