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.

The best feeling in the world is when your child comes up to you and lays their head in your lap, for no other reason but just because. I can't wait to have more.

I have always resisted putting limitations on myself, both professionally and personally.

Im in my mid-30s, Ive won an Oscar, I have four children. You figure out if my deafness has adversely affected my life.

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

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

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