I'm the only one in my family who is deaf, and there are still conversations that go around me that I miss out on. And I ask what's going on, and I have to ask to be included. But I'm not going to be sad about it. I don't live in sad isolation. It's just a situation I'm used to.

The only thing I can't do is hear. I can drive, I have a life with four kids, I work on TV, I do movies, so the deafness question, is it that they want to know because, what? Not sure.

I'm gonna be unemployed when people read this. Ha.

I am writing my second novel for children for Simon and Schuster.

Differences are scarier now. The dollar isn't so guaranteed if you don't follow what they see as the norm. But I don't moan about it. I just keep working.

I'm not really deaf; I just faked it to win the Oscar KIDDING.

I'm different, and my manner invites questions. I'm never afraid to answer.