 What the Bleep Do We Know was not written with a deaf person in mind, but when they met me, it clicked with them to have me in it. But that happens with a lot of actors in Hollywood, not just with me. |
| 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. |
| How many deaf people do you know in real life? Unless they live in a cave, or are 14, which seems to be true for most people in this business, what could I possibly tell them that they don't already know? |
| The hearing aids are very helpful for speech reading. Without the hearing aids, my voice becomes very loud, and I cannot control the quality of my voice. |
| I've always wanted to write a book relating my experiences growing up as a deaf child in Chicago. Contrary to what people might think, it wasn't all about hearing aids and speech classes or frustrations. |
| It was ability that mattered, not disability, which is a word I'm not crazy about using. |
| What parent has it easy? I just never make the difficulty of it an obstacle. I just do it. |
| I have made the choices that work best for me. I know I cannot please everyone, and that's fine. |
| I was the youngest and only girl in a family of two older brothers. |
| I can hear you and I can watch your mouth move, and then I put together the sounds and the visual image, and I can understand the words as I integrate the two signals. |
| I got a good handshake. A lot of executives tell me I have the best handshake in Hollywood. |
| Hollywood embraced me in the late '80s because there was a good project I was in and it was different. Nowadays, it's about corporate mentality, box office, youth. |
