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

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.

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.

Someone who is determinedly trying to show God how good he or she is is likely to become an insufferable prig.

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is.

A period of lewdness and shamelessness exists with the highest type of manic delirium.

I like to deal with things I heard about, ... People are always getting their house broken into around the holidays. That's when the crime rate goes up.

I won't let you be disappointed; I will show you my fighting spirit.

From 1975 to 1979 - through execution, starvation, disease, and forced labor - the Khmer Rouge systematically killed an estimated two million Cambodians, almost a fourth of the country's population.

Napoleon never liked the word impossible; if he had liked it, he wouldn't be Napoleon!

There is another component that makes us who we are. It is a fantasy comprising all of our actions and thoughts. It’s called an opinion. And we will die for our opinion

I understand why marriages break up over golf. I can't even talk about my own handicap because it's too upsetting.