Maybe my way of communicating through sign made me more in tune with my body and how it moved. Who knows? I just know when I saw a stage for the first time, I wanted to be on it.

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.

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

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.

Humans will never be in charge of this world, as long as dust and weeds do as they please.

People argue themselves out of their pleasures

The dance that I wasn't going to attend in about a jillion years just turned into a make-out session with random boys we have never met.

I wish I were like Facebook

It's an amazing luxury to say I'm 31 years old and I'm gonna take a year off. That's pretty amazing.

Californians are worried about whether they will have a job along with ballooning federal spending and deficits.

I could never figure out why photography and art had separate histories. So I decided to explore both.

Lie detection is like language; there is a learning window. Telling whoppers to small children seems to be a family tradition in many families.

Freedon succeeds from the moment people stop looking to others to improve their lives and start taking responsibility.

In a way, everybody is wounded from the wound of the real. This phenomenon is similar to madness. The mad person is wounded by his or her distorted relationship to the real.