When I learned to sign and speak at the same time, the whole world opened up to me. That's the beauty of encouraging kids who are deaf to use whateve….

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 h….

It was ability that mattered, not disability, which is a word I'm not crazy about using..

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..

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 t….

At some point we have to stop and say, There's Marlee, not, There's the deaf actress..

At the end of the day, it's about the best interests of the children..

Silence is the last thing the world will ever hear from me..

I'm different, and my manner invites questions. I'm never afraid to answer..

Deaf people can do anything, except hear..

I live my life like everyone else; everyone has their own obstacles. Mine is deafness..

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..

Maybe my way of communicating through sign made me more in tune with my body and how it moved. Who knows? I just know when I saw a stage for the firs….

I find the mantle of, she works hard for the money, or, she's overcome so many obstacles a bit overused..

You can do anything if you set your mind to it. Look out for kids, help them dream and be inspired. We teach calculus in schools, but I believe the m….

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….

All I can say is I've been reading the lips of bleeped-out words, angry baseball players, and stoned-out rock stars on awards shows for years and it'….

I'm a proud person who happens to be deaf. I don't want to change it. I don't want to wake up and suddenly say, 'Oh my God, I can hear.' That's not m….

The handicap of deafness is not in the ear; it is in the mind..

I'm not really deaf; I just faked it to win the Oscar KIDDING..

Im in my mid-30s, Ive won an Oscar, I have four children. You figure out if my deafness has adversely affected my life..