I listen to Billy Joel. He is fabulous. I saw him with Elton John when they toured together, it was so great.

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.

I've been around since I was 19, I won the Oscar when I was 21, I've had a couple of TV series. I've continued to work despite the predictions of some naysayers.

The handicap of deafness is not in the ear; it is in the mind.

At some point we have to stop and say, There's Marlee, not, There's the deaf actress.

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

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.