In the deaf community, in order to play a role of someone with a hearing loss... you have to have hearing loss.

Before a big acting competition, my dad sent me a note that said, 'Define the moment. Don't let the moment define you.'

It's really important to be active in your community, whatever community that is... find allies and find people who you relate to and who make you stronger as a group.

In my normal life, I do not speak with an accent. It's harder for people to realize my hearing loss in everyday life.

I'm a total nerd. I love comic books and video games and most of all zombies!

I was born in San Antonio, TX, but moved to Lakewood, CO in elementary school. Then, I moved to Valley Center, CA in high school.

The iPad was my first splurge after I got my first paychecks. I paid off the debt, and I now bring the iPad with me to auditions.

Prayer should not be merely an act, but an attitude of life.

She was young and alive, untouchable. Why did she want to go?

If I have to face the end of human existence, I want to look totally smoking when it happens. Now shut the hell up.

There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.

Stay neurotic. Stay frustrated. Stay emotional. Stay excited. Your life is happening.

Black moleskin gloves covered his hands; the right because it was burned, the left because a man felt half a fool wearing only one glove.

I became a Republican because I trust people more than I trust government.

What concerns all, should be considered by all; and individuals may injure a whole society, by not declaring their sentiments. It is therefore not only their right, but their duty, to declare them.

If we want to move forward, not just the Government but 125 crore Indians will have to do something.

I know this body is impatient. I know I constitute only a meager voice and mind. Yet I loved, I love. I want no sentimentality. I want no more than home.