I have tremendous faith in theuniverse. I feel at home on this planet. Even though it's a very big world out there, I plan on walking right through the middle of it unharmed.

But if you don't watch me, I will try and sneak in some humor. I see humor everywhere in life around me.

Hearing loss very often is such a gradual phenomenon that the person is in denial. You really have to be patient with them in getting them to come forward to get help.

I think in Mrs. C, I certainly played myself. A very compulsive, sweet person.

The thing about hearing loss is that no one can see it. Most people are so impatient; they just assume that the person with hearing loss is being rude, or slow-witted.

I really wanted to go onstage. Not movies. But I ended up under contract to Paramount. Now I adore film work.

The great classics that, as a professional you don't get to do, you do as a student, when you don't know any better.