One of the things I did when I was in New York, which has a wonderful deaf community, is I have worked on making Broadway more accessible to deaf people.

I've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word

One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other.

I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf.

The character I play is a wonderful compilation of things I hate about myself and things I love about myself and things that I've invented to make her even more interesting than me.

I was scared, because I knew that in the political arena, you have to satisfy so many different types of people at once, and I wasn't sure that I could speak for everybody and be politically correct.

I hate overweight, because it implies that there's a weight standard i should be adhering to