Every story was being made up. My true friends weren't the ones speaking. It was people who never knew me, making up stories. Even my local paper put….

Some people have a negative attitude, and that's their disability..

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..

I hope I inspire people who hear. Hearing people have the ability to remove barriers that prevent deaf people from achieving their dreams..

We make up any excuse to preserve myths about people we love, but the reverse is also true; if we dislike an individual we adamantly resist changing ….

Most of the successful people in Hollywood are failures as human beings..

Would people applaud me if I was a good plumber?.

Comedy clubs can be brutal. Those people are for real, and if you aren't funny, they aren't laughing. They don't care who you are..

I'll say, what makes me happy about making movies is, every once in a while through movies we find a kind of honesty. There's an honesty in fiction t….

People do think that if they avoid the truth, it might change to something better before they have to hear it..

We criticize people for not giving us what we ourselves are afraid to ask for..

Young people have an almost biological destiny to be hopeful..

If I can be a good person and help a few non-believers or even help people that are believers but need a little help along the way, I think that's a ….

I don't play to prove people right or wrong. I just want to win..

And if you're lucky enough to survive going crazy and get back to the point where you can pass for normal, it builds a question into the rest of your….

There was a point when I was 15 or 16 that I realized that my father wanted me to be a loner. I decided, 'It's okay to be an introvert, but I don't w….

I approach everything the same. I try to make it as real as possible, whether you gotta make people laugh or make people cry, it's always the same ap….

To have a job where you can make things better for people? That's a blessing. Why would I do anything else?.

Education is critical for people to become compassionate. If you don't know the problem and you don't know the reality, how can you help?.

There are some audiences who are uncomfortable with the ambiguity, though. They want a film to chew their food for them, they want Hollywood endings ….

I love to just listen and watch. I could happily watch a security camera at a store. Often during a day I'll see a guy selling pretzels or an argumen….