Most profoundly deaf people have speech that is very difficult to understand..

I mean God knows I've done tons of schlock during the course of my career and stuff that's been very low budget and really pressed for time, but I've….

I consider anybody who has been able to make a living in this business [movie business] without having to do something else for a living for any peri….

I did Bored To Death with Jason [Schwartzman] and Zach Galifianakis and those guys. I mean, how lucky can you be that you get to be the old guy? I ge….

I have to say I was very lucky in this [movie] business. I was in the right place at the right time when I first got started..

For example, the first time McDonald's put a deaf person in a commercial they saw a jump in sales. I think that happens with other kinds of disabilit….

I used to be the youngest person on the set [of Bored To Death]. Now I'm very often the oldest person on the set. I feel lucky about that, to be hone….

Very interesting show. It's "Hotel" with the E missing. Hot L Baltimore. It was about a rundown hotel which had become kind of a residential not quit….

Being an actor myself I realize that all actors believe they are qualified to play any role. If you showed me a script with a black woman character I….

The difference between deafness and any other disability is that there is no way to put yourself in a position of knowing what it would be like becau….

There is no relation to sound for deaf people. It is a totally different mental process..

People who just wanted to make it work and knew it was going to be a real challenge. We were on the beach the first day and Donald [Sutherland] and I….

I was doing a play in New York, which we had done in New Haven, Connecticut. It was an American premiere of a play called The Changing Room written b….

In a very real way Norman [Lear] godfathered me into my career. He was the best mentor anybody could have ever had..

She [Susan Lucci] was extraordinary. She wouldn't look at the scene until you walked in to rehearse it. It was amazing to me. That's the impression I….

I would never ever, ever, ever, ever do it again [All My Children]. It was the scariest thing I've ever done. I have such respect for people who do i….

I walk into office, which is the casting office for CBS in New York. Mainly what they cast out of this office was the CBS daytime shows. I go in and ….

I did my first movie,a movie called Whiffs, which very few people ever saw..

I did a film many years ago called The Man Without A Face.Gaby [Hoffmann] was in with Mel Gibson. That was his directing debut. He did a great job..

I moved out to L.A. in July and Hot L Baltimore started in September or October. So I had done a few things. I'd done a Mary [Tyler Moore]. I'd done ….

But people who think they can project themselves into deafness are mistaken because you can't. And I'm not talking about imagining what a deaf person….