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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.
Marlee Matlin
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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 first time, I wanted to be on it.
Marlee Matlin
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Everybody's got a job to do, and I do mine as best I can.
Marlee Matlin
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If I were offered a cochlear implant today, I would prefer not to have one. But that's not a statement about hearing aids or cochlear implants. It's about who you are.
Marlee Matlin
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I'm different, and my manner invites questions. I'm never afraid to answer.
Marlee Matlin
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When I was 13, I told Henry Winkler I wanted to act. He said, Do it and don't let anyone stand in your way. His validation just made it all the more true. I haven't stopped thanking him since.
Marlee Matlin
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I listen to Billy Joel. He is fabulous. I saw him with Elton John when they toured together, it was so great.
Marlee Matlin
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Hollywood embraced me in the late '80s because there was a good project I was in and it was different. Nowadays, it's about corporate mentality, box office, youth.
Marlee Matlin
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I am writing my second novel for children for Simon and Schuster.
Marlee Matlin
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What the Bleep Do We Know was not written with a deaf person in mind, but when they met me, it clicked with them to have me in it. But that happens with a lot of actors in Hollywood, not just with me.
Marlee Matlin
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It seems we're always in transition and that it's more about trends than it is about what's meaningful.
Marlee Matlin
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I learned to speak first, and then to sign. I have never really known what it was like to hear, so I can't compare hearing aids to normal hearing.
Marlee Matlin
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I can hear you and I can watch your mouth move, and then I put together the sounds and the visual image, and I can understand the words as I integrate the two signals.
Marlee Matlin
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I was the youngest and only girl in a family of two older brothers.
Marlee Matlin
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I got a good handshake. A lot of executives tell me I have the best handshake in Hollywood.
Marlee Matlin
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