You have to give people the opportunity to prove themselves.

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.

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.

Those who write need that "willing suspension of disbelief ", as Coleridge called it.

Only in time of peace can the wastes of capitalism be tolerated.

In chess there is a world of intellectual values.

I'm a much better mother at 46... than if I were like, 21 or 25.

In this condition of the most devastating humiliation, I still possessed the most precious of liberties, that no-one could take away from me: that of deciding who I wanted to be.

I'm dreading the time that is not near As a man on a cross I have no fear I can't believe these words I'm saying You've got to feel your lines

Better to be the cat gazing coolly down from a high wall, its expression inscrutable. The cat that shunned petting, that needed no one. Why couldn't she be that cat?

The Jewish press in the USA is solely responsible for our poor publicity.

I am not your God. Or if I am, I'm no God you can seek out for deliverance or explanation. I'm the kind of God who would eat you without compunction if I were hungry.

Luxury, like a minimum wage, is a relationship; it changes as we change.