Most profoundly deaf people have speech that is very difficult to understand.

I'm one of the handful of survivors of the guys I came up with.

You have to give people the opportunity to prove themselves.

There is no relation to sound for deaf people. It is a totally different mental process.

I did my first movie,a movie called Whiffs, which very few people ever saw.

I had a very low voice for the character in the show. I said, "That's not actually my voice. That's the character's voice." I'm being such an actor.

She [Susan Lucci] was extraordinary. She wouldn't look at the scene until you walked in to rehearse it. It was amazing to me. That's the impression I got anyway.

If people don't actively knock the scenery over and they get the words out in something approximating the right order, you're moving on.

I have to say I was very lucky in this [movie] business. I was in the right place at the right time when I first got started.

In a very real way Norman [Lear] godfathered me into my career. He was the best mentor anybody could have ever had.

I consider anybody who has been able to make a living in this business [movie business] without having to do something else for a living for any period of time let alone 43 years would be a miracle.

Some mistakes are worse than others: wearing your underwear inside out isn’t as uncomfortable as wearing it back to front.

He lives happy and master of himself who can say as each day passes on, "I have lived.

In freedom you form in utter disgrace, the bars of my prison this night.While you drift on currents of seraphim heights, it is I who deserve to take flight.

And fairy tales are make-believe. They are the stories we tell to small children to make them believe the world is a far better place than it really is.

We believe that an Iraqi founding national assembly, freely elected, must decide the future of Iraq.

What opens my heart is when my son wakes me up in the morning, nudging me and saying, 'Mommy, mommy!'

Ultimately, what separates a Winner from a Loser at the Grandmaster level is the Willingness to do the Unthinkable.

The notion of a world government to defend our rights would have sent the founding fathers running for their muskets.

If you avoid the killer diseases and keep the degenerative ones under control with sensible diet and exercise and whatever chemotherapy you need to stay in balance, you can live nearly forever.

I can no longer live by thinking.