I live my life like everyone else; everyone has their own obstacles. Mine is deafness.

I've been around since I was 19, I won the Oscar when I was 21, I've had a couple of TV series. I've continued to work despite the predictions of some naysayers.

Deaf people can do anything, except hear.

When I was 13, I told Henry Winkler I wanted to act. He said, Do it and don't let anyone stand in your way. His validation just made it all the more true. I haven't stopped thanking him since.

I have a great husband, great parents and in-laws, and I have help with a nanny. It's not easy, but there are others who do it every day and don't have a high-profile job as I do.

It was ability that mattered, not disability, which is a word I'm not crazy about using.

I got a good handshake. A lot of executives tell me I have the best handshake in Hollywood.

I have made the choices that work best for me. I know I cannot please everyone, and that's fine.

Silence is the last thing the world will ever hear from me.

When I learned to sign and speak at the same time, the whole world opened up to me. That's the beauty of encouraging kids who are deaf to use whatever it takes to communicate.

The handicap of deafness is not in the ear; it is in the mind.

If I build own language... will be better because I always will end up making new words.

A locked door was suddenly opened in the back of my mind and a barrage of demented clowns came rushing out.

Antonio’s will was cursed. Not once, but twice.

Even when I'm playing someone named 'Fat Amy.' I'm all about confidence and attitude.

I feel sure that unborn babies pick their parents.

I was an economics major in college, and every summer after school, I would drive my car from California, from Claremont men's college at the time, to New York. And I worked on Wall Street.

This homage has been rendered not to me - for the Polish soil is fertile and does not lack better writers than me - but to the Polish achievement, the Polish genius.

'Perfect justice rules the world' for the Powers that are superior to us know the whole life of the Soul and all its' former lives.

Living is the purpose of life, And meaning can be found therein. I finds thou. Thou becomes it. And it begins again.

In the last four years, I heard the same thing over and over again from people: 'We've had enough,' 'Our country is drifting,' 'We've lost our way.