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

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.

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

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.

Every lie needs, and gives birth to, another lie

I can dip the pen in my own blood if I choose.

Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth

Better than the one who knows what is right is the one who loves what is right.

If you're a single mother with two children, which is the toughest job in America as far as I'm concerned, and you're working hard to put food on your family.

The spirit of Hitler is not dead.

I want to make music that somehow connects to the things that I love in America music.

In spite of all our speeding it's still the style to be late.

Hopefully, we can build a rivalry and we'll be able to do this a lot. Make a legacy, then retire champions.

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.