Marlee Matlin Quotes
I would love to do a talk show. Naturally, I would love to do more films. I'd love to be able to see casting directors more willing to put in a character who happens to be deaf. I'm not talking about doing deaf storylines, but putting in deaf characters. I'd love to be able to do Broadway.
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People think I look odd onstage. But the way I deal with being incredibly nervous is by concentrating really hard.
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My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.
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Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.
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We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.
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Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.
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When I finish a film, I want to forget it. I never like to repeat myself. Maybe, when I am dead, they will find certain consistencies in the style of my films, but I never want one film to look like another.
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The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons.
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My music confuses people because they think I will sound a certain way because I look a certain way with the dreads.
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You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.
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I'm the girl that's on the beach with a hat on, under an umbrella. Like, very shaded. But my weird thing is, I only tan my legs. My whole body's covered in the shade, and I tan my legs.
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A well begun is half ended.
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I look formidable.
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All the best parts of art come from pain turned to celebration.
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I eat tons of green veggies to keep my PH balance in check.
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If the blood humor is too strong and robust, calm it with balance and harmony.
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One of my biggest drawbacks is my inability to maintain my physique. I put on weight for 'Soodhu Kavvum' and never managed to shed it. Luckily, that look suited a few films, including 'Orange Mittai.'
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The old Dodgers were something special, but of my teammates overall, there was nobody like Pee Wee Reese for me.
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The left-brainer and the economist in me says watch what people do, not what they say.
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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.
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It's a lovely thing to have people in any circumstance appreciate your work.
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If any of my characters require me to blacken my beard I do it, otherwise I don't.
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When I was a ten-year old bookworm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it used to amaze me that these remote people could provoke me to love.
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Character is power.
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I would love to do a talk show. Naturally, I would love to do more films. I'd love to be able to see casting directors more willing to put in a character who happens to be deaf. I'm not talking about doing deaf storylines, but putting in deaf characters. I'd love to be able to do Broadway.
