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My worst holiday was in Athens when I was a young drama student at Rada in 1965. I ran out of money. I had my things stolen and I wasn't able to speak a word of the language.
- Stephanie Beacham
#Drama
#Language
#Money
#Speak
#Young
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.
- Stephanie Beacham
#Amazing
#Need
#Places
#Stop
#Time
When I look in the mirror, I sometimes think I'm getting old, but then I have two generations behind me so that helps puts things into perspective. I am a grandmother now, but at least my nine-year-old grandson Jude calls me Glamma and not Granny.
- Stephanie Beacham
#I Am
#Look
#Me
#Mirror
#Perspective
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.
- Stephanie Beacham
#Art
#Deaf
#Doctor
#Me
#Royal
Nothing is going to improve my hearing. I've only got to prevent it from getting worse.
- Stephanie Beacham
#Going
#Hearing
#Nothing
#Only
#Worse
I'm the one by the backdoor - I am not the one in the middle of the party.
- Stephanie Beacham
#Am
#I Am
#Middle
#Party
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.
- Stephanie Beacham
#Deaf
#Early
#Language
#Never
#Would
I have to concentrate more intently when people speak. I always have to position myself on their right side so that I can hear out of my left ear. I sometimes get a crick in my neck from listening. But I don't there's too much else.
- Stephanie Beacham
#Listening
#Myself
#People
#Sometimes
I genuinely enjoy talking one-to-one. I have no shyness about that.
- Stephanie Beacham
#About
#Enjoy
#Shyness
#Talking
But as far as my work is concerned, I see no impediment, and various advantages, to being deaf.
- Stephanie Beacham
#Deaf
#Far
#I See
#See
#Work
We all live in fear of cancer, but to be told you have skin cancer was terrifying.
- Stephanie Beacham
#Cancer
#Fear
#Live
#Skin
#Terrifying
I can not remember even thinking that I was deaf when I was dancing.
- Stephanie Beacham
#Dancing
#Deaf
#I Can
#Remember
#Thinking
When I was young I used to smother myself with olive oil mixed with a dash of vinegar to keep the flies away and lay in the sunshine for hours on end. But we knew no better then. Now we know how stupid that was.
- Stephanie Beacham
#Better
#Myself
#Stupid
#Sunshine
#Young
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.
- Stephanie Beacham
#Deafness
#Leave
#Me
#Smile
#Tired
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.
- Stephanie Beacham
#Children
#Deaf
#Grace
#Me
#People
#Sad
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