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 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.

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.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles he has overcome trying to succeed.

The desert shall rejoice and blossom as the rose.

Some think that they know everybody, but they really don't know themselves.

Marvellous mercies and infinite love.

Lyon are the same away from home as they are at home, they have the same way of playing.

I've been blessed with the ability to sing, and that has taken me so many places I never would have gone otherwise.

I have had enough experience in all my years, and have read enough of the past, to know that advice to grandchildren is usually wasted.

So let me be thy choir, and make a moan Upon the midnight hours.

As I am from Hawaiʻi, the ocean is part of my culture and who I am. My ancestors were great ocean explorers.

The way to transform your immense inner value into outer riches is by giving it freely and authentically to others.