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I want roles without anger and feistiness. I want to show weakness and sadness, some love, some happiness.
- Marlee Matlin
#Anger
#Happiness
#Love
#Show
#Weakness
I'm the only one in my family who is deaf, and there are still conversations that go around me that I miss out on. And I ask what's going on, and I have to ask to be included. But I'm not going to be sad about it. I don't live in sad isolation. It's just a situation I'm used to.
- Marlee Matlin
#Family
#Isolation
#Live
#Me
#Sad
I hope that through my example, such as my role on 'The West Wing,' I can help change attitudes on deafness and prove we can really do everything... except hear.
- Marlee Matlin
#Change
#Deafness
#Help
#Hope
#I Can
Looking back now, thinking about that moment in the lights, with my heart pounding, Oscar in my hand, all I can say is I am grateful and humbled - still to this day. Next to marrying my husband and the birth of my children, it is one of the best days ever.
- Marlee Matlin
#Best
#Day
#Heart
#Looking Back
#Moment
The only thing I can't do is hear. I can drive, I have a life with four kids, I work on TV, I do movies, so the deafness question, is it that they want to know because, what? Not sure.
- Marlee Matlin
#Deafness
#Drive
#Life
#Movies
#Work
There are many deaf people who couldn't imagine living in a marriage without someone who doesn't speak their language. For me, I believe that hearing or deaf is fine as long as both parties are willing to communicate in each other's language. But if there's no communication, then the marriage, I believe, will be difficult if not doomed.
- Marlee Matlin
#Communication
#Long
#Marriage
#Me
When I was 13, I told Henry Winkler I wanted to act. He said, Do it and don't let anyone stand in your way. His validation just made it all the more true. I haven't stopped thanking him since.
- Marlee Matlin
#Act
#More
#Stand
#True
#Way
It was my father who instilled the 'never say no' attitude I carry around with me today, and who instilled in me a sense of wonder, always taking us on adventures in the car, never telling us the destination.
- Marlee Matlin
#Attitude
#Car
#Destination
#Me
#Today
The best feeling in the world is when you child just comes up to you and lays their head in your lap, for no other reason but just because.
- Marlee Matlin
#Best
#Head
#Just Because
#Reason
#World
I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago, and in spite of what most people might have expected from a young girl growing up deaf, life for me was like one long episode of 'The Brady Bunch.' Despite whatever barriers were in my way, I imagined myself as Marcia Brady skating down the street saying 'hi' to everyone, whether they knew me or not.
- Marlee Matlin
#Life
#Long
#Me
#Myself
#Street
When I learned to sign and speak at the same time, the whole world opened up to me. That's the beauty of encouraging kids who are deaf to use whatever it takes to communicate.
- Marlee Matlin
#Beauty
#Deaf
#Me
#Time
#World
YouTube is akin to having my own network.
- Marlee Matlin
#Having
#My Own
#Own
#Technology
#YouTube
I'm not broke. Like everybody else, I owe money.
- Marlee Matlin
#Broke
#Everybody
#Like
#Money
#Owe
Humor comes in all forms, and everyone has their cup of tea about what makes them laugh. But the day we censor humor is a sad one for sure.
- Marlee Matlin
#Day
#Humor
#Laugh
#Sad
#Tea
Everybody's got a job to do, and I do mine as best I can.
- Marlee Matlin
#Best
#Everybody
#I Can
#Job
#Mine
I listen to Billy Joel. He is fabulous. I saw him with Elton John when they toured together, it was so great.
- Marlee Matlin
#Fabulous
#Great
#He
#Saw
#Together
I like to say that the greatest handicap of deafness does not lie in the ear, it lies in the mind. I hope that through my example, such as my role on 'The West Wing,' I can help change attitudes on deafness and prove we can really do everything... except hear.
- Marlee Matlin
#Change
#Deafness
#Hope
#Lie
#Mind
It seems we're always in transition and that it's more about trends than it is about what's meaningful.
- Marlee Matlin
#About
#Always
#More
#Transition
#Trends
What parent has it easy? I just never make the difficulty of it an obstacle. I just do it.
- Marlee Matlin
#Easy
#Just Do It
#Just
#Never
#Parenting
I was the youngest and only girl in a family of two older brothers.
- Marlee Matlin
#Family
#Girl
#Only
#Two
#Youngest
At some point we have to stop and say, There's Marlee, not, There's the deaf actress.
- Marlee Matlin
#Deaf
#Equality
#Point
#Say
#Stop
I'm different, and my manner invites questions. I'm never afraid to answer.
- Marlee Matlin
#Afraid
#Answer
#Fear
#Never
#Questions
You can do anything if you set your mind to it. Look out for kids, help them dream and be inspired. We teach calculus in schools, but I believe the most important formula is courage plus dreams equals success.
- Marlee Matlin
#Courage
#Dreams
#Look
#Mind
#Success
I hope I inspire people who hear. Hearing people have the ability to remove barriers that prevent deaf people from achieving their dreams.
- Marlee Matlin
#Ability
#Deaf
#Dreams
#Hope
#Inspire
#People
If I were offered a cochlear implant today, I would prefer not to have one. But that's not a statement about hearing aids or cochlear implants. It's about who you are.
- Marlee Matlin
#About
#Hearing
#Statement
#Today
#Who
Silence is the last thing the world will ever hear from me.
- Marlee Matlin
#Inspirational
#Me
#Silence
#Will
#World
I live my life like everyone else; everyone has their own obstacles. Mine is deafness.
- Marlee Matlin
#Deafness
#Life
#Live
#My Life
#Obstacles
Every one of us is different in some way, but for those of us who are more different, we have to put more effort into convincing the less different that we can do the same thing they can, just differently.
- Marlee Matlin
#Effort
#More
#Same Thing
#Us
#Way
The handicap of deafness is not in the ear; it is in the mind.
- Marlee Matlin
#Deafness
#Ear
#Inspirational
#Mind
I have made the choices that work best for me. I know I cannot please everyone, and that's fine.
- Marlee Matlin
#Best
#Choices
#Me
#Please Everyone
#Work
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