Marlee Matlin Quotes
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.
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I'm tired of seeing listings of programs I want to watch that aren't closed captioned. And I'm tired of looking for the symbol on the side of the video package.
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I'm not broke. Like everybody else, I owe money.
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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.
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At some point we have to stop and say, There's Marlee, not, There's the deaf actress.
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I got a good handshake. A lot of executives tell me I have the best handshake in Hollywood.
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As a kid, during the school year, my head was often buried in a textbook or Judy Blume book; the words and pictures were the perfect, barrier-free environment for me.
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I find the mantle of, she works hard for the money, or, she's overcome so many obstacles a bit overused.
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I learned a long time ago from when I did 'Seinfeld' never to take anything seriously, and to be part of the joke is the best way to show what a good sport I was.
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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 as they can... just differently.
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I want roles without anger and feistiness. I want to show weakness and sadness, some love, some happiness.
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What parent has it easy? I just never make the difficulty of it an obstacle. I just do it.
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I'm different, and my manner invites questions. I'm never afraid to answer.
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I have made the choices that work best for me. I know I cannot please everyone, and that's fine.
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By the time I was a teenager, my desire to be daring and taste everything got me in trouble. Too often, I was in the company of kids my parents would call 'wild.'
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There are so many people, deaf or otherwise abled, who are so talented but overlooked or not given a chance to even get their foot in the door.
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Silence is the last thing the world will ever hear from me.
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The Earth does not belong to us: we belong to the Earth.
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I listen to Billy Joel. He is fabulous. I saw him with Elton John when they toured together, it was so great.
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I personally have dealt with any adversity in my life with humor. That's why I told America to 'Read my hips!' on 'Dancing With the Stars' or was happy to play along with Jason Alexander and Jerry Seinfeld in the great restaurant scene on 'Seinfeld.'
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It seems we're always in transition and that it's more about trends than it is about what's meaningful.
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I'm particularly proud of my work with the Starkey Hearing Foundation for whom I raised a million dollars in one day on 'Celebrity Apprentice.' They do great work around the world helping deaf children in developing countries get proper attention and free hearing aids.
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I did my first series lead back in 1991 on a show called 'Reasonable Doubts' and have done many shows with other actors who are deaf. But 'Switched at Birth' is the first TV show where there is more than one actor who is deaf or hard of hearing and who are series regulars.
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I like to play around with people who don't know me. Often I'm talking to people through my speaker phone, and after 10 minutes or so they say, 'Wait a minute, Marlee, how can you hear me?' They forget I have an interpreter there who is signing to me as they talk. So I say, 'You know what? I can hear on Wednesdays.'
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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.