Living modestly in a suburban neighborhood while trying to support four children through private school is not extravagant or living large.

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.

What parent has it easy? I just never make the difficulty of it an obstacle. I just do it.

Maybe my way of communicating through sign made me more in tune with my body and how it moved. Who knows? I just know when I saw a stage for the first time, I wanted to be on it.

Deaf people can do anything, except hear.

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

I got a good handshake. A lot of executives tell me I have the best handshake in Hollywood.