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….

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….

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….

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….

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

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….

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….

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 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..

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 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….

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….

Spelling is very easy to practice yourself whereas signing is not. So I would sit on the subway riding around New York and I would spell whatever I w….