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

- Marlee Matlin

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…

- Marlee Matlin

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…

- Marlee Matlin

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

- Marlee Matlin

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…

- Marlee Matlin

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

- Marlee Matlin

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…

- Marlee Matlin

Deaf people can do anything, except hear.

- Marlee Matlin

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

- Marlee Matlin