I genuinely enjoy talking one-to-one. I have no shyness about that.

I took some classes in sign language when I was in my early teens because I was told that I would be completely deaf very early. But I never really wanted to learn.

One of the reasons I wanted to teach deaf children was because it made me very sad that they spoke so clumsily and that they moved with less grace that I knew was possible of deaf people.

Nothing is going to improve my hearing. I've only got to prevent it from getting worse.

I can not remember even thinking that I was deaf when I was dancing.

But as far as my work is concerned, I see no impediment, and various advantages, to being deaf.

I think the deafness affects me more than I realise I think it makes me more tired. I loathe parties. I attend, smile and leave.

I'm the one by the backdoor - I am not the one in the middle of the party.

When I got into the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, a doctor told me to give up the course as I'd be totally deaf within a couple of years. But I refused to give in.

I'm lucky that most of the time I'm on location in amazing places. Most of the time, I don't need holidays, I just stop working.

People keep asking me if I'll marry again. It's as if after you've had one car crash you want another.

There is no limit to how good you can get in pursuit of perfection.

Every time you hurt my heart, you are actually making it stronger.

Come. There is a way to be good again...

God’s not in the business of pampering His children. He’s in the business of perfecting them.

if you wanna make friends, you have to be hypocrite, but if you wanna have best friends you need to be honest to them

The only thing I'd ever done with news was to read copy sitting at the microphone in the studio.

The only certainty about following the crowd is that you will all get there together.

Teach correctly... Find delight in contemplation.

Philanthropy has always been something that I've been kind of interested in because I think it was instilled at a very young age through my parents.

Every artist paints his Madonna according to his own pre-conceived ideas.