We all live in fear of cancer, but to be told you have skin cancer was terrifying.

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.

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

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.

Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.

I was such a big 'Dirty Dozen, ' 'Where Eagles Dare, ' 'A Bridge Too Far' - all those kinds of movies I loved.

I cannot imagine anyone looking at the sky and denying God.

To be fortunate is God, and more than God to mortals.

DNA has nothing to do with success. Turn your genes into overalls and get to work.

But I went to the University of Texas in the 30s, and while there I learned to ride. Mostly polo ponies.

I love you. I'm not sure if it's the way you want me to. I think it might be. But I know that I love you. I absolutely love you.

Mrs. Clinton's policies, which are an echo of Barack Obama's policies, are gonna continue to wreak havoc and damage on America's minorities.

It's important to be able to keep things fresh, no matter what age you are, or how many years you've been in the industry.

Men of Science. If they are worthy of the name they are indeed about God's path and about his bed and spying out all his ways.