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.

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

When you're up for an award at the Oscars, try as you might, it's hard to concentrate on the show.

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.

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

Deaf people can do anything, except hear.

I hope I inspire people who hear. Hearing people have the ability to remove barriers that prevent deaf people from achieving their dreams.