It seems we're always in transition and that it's more about trends than it is about what's meaningful.

When I learned to sign and speak at the same time, the whole world opened up to me. That's the beauty of encouraging kids who are deaf to use whatever it takes to communicate.

I'm not broke. Like everybody else, I owe money.

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

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.

How many deaf people do you know in real life? Unless they live in a cave, or are 14, which seems to be true for most people in this business, what could I possibly tell them that they don't already know?

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