Marlee Matlin Quotes
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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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Watch me when people say deaf and dumb, or deaf mute, and I give them a look like you might get if you called Denzel Washington the wrong name.
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I hope I inspire people who hear. Hearing people have the ability to remove barriers that prevent deaf people from achieving their dreams.
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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.
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It was ability that mattered, not disability, which is a word I'm not crazy about using.
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I am writing my second novel for children for Simon and Schuster.
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Deaf people can do anything, except hear.
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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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There is nothing better than being a parent. It is the most challenging job one could ever ask for. I love being a mom and I love being a friend to my children as well.
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The best feeling in the world is when your child comes up to you and lays their head in your lap, for no other reason but just because. I can't wait to have more.
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The handicap of deafness is not in the ear; it is in the mind.
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Living modestly in a suburban neighborhood while trying to support four children through private school is not extravagant or living large.
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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 they can, just differently.
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Silence is the last thing the world will ever hear from me.
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When it comes down to it, it's about who you know, and who's a fan. It's about whether you're the right age, whether you're hot or not, whether the studio is into you or not.
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Im in my mid-30s, Ive won an Oscar, I have four children. You figure out if my deafness has adversely affected my life.
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I've been around since I was 19, I won the Oscar when I was 21, I've had a couple of TV series. I've continued to work despite the predictions of some naysayers.
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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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I'm different, and my manner invites questions. I'm never afraid to answer.
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Everybody's got a job to do, and I do mine as best I can.
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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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Differences are scarier now. The dollar isn't so guaranteed if you don't follow what they see as the norm. But I don't moan about it. I just keep working.
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I was 21 years and 218 days old when I received the Academy Award for Best Actress. I had just stepped into an imaginary world that I'd seen at a distance for years.
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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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At some point we have to stop and say, There's Marlee, not, There's the deaf actress.
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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.
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I learned to speak first, and then to sign. I have never really known what it was like to hear, so I cant compare hearing aids to normal hearing.
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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 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.
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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.
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