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

It was ability that mattered, not disability, which is a word I'm not crazy about using.

All I can say is I've been reading the lips of bleeped-out words, angry baseball players, and stoned-out rock stars on awards shows for years and it's been hilarious. Everyone is always asking me what the bleeped-out parts are saying.

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

During a visit to California, when a friend of my grandmother's told my parents that I must be deaf because I was not responding to sounds, my father was absolutely convinced that I was simply being stubborn.

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

I learned to speak first, and then to sign. I have never really known what it was like to hear, so I cant compare hearing aids to normal hearing.