Quotes by Marlee Matlin

Marlee Matlin

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.

Baseball

Reading

Stars

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

Actresses

Deaf

At the end of the day, it’s about the best interests of the children.

Children

Ends

The End Of The Day

Deaf people can do anything, except hear.

Deaf

Gallaudet

People

Differences are scarier now. The dollar isn’t so guaranteed if you don’t follow what they see as the norm. But I don’t moan about it. I just keep working.

Differences

Dollars

Norm

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.

California

Father

Grandmother

Every one of us is different in some way, but for those of us who are more different, we have to put more effort into convincing the less different that we can do the same thing they can, just differently.

Effort

Individual Differences

People

Everybody’s got a job to do, and I do mine as best I can.

I Can

Jobs

Mines

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.

Different

Hollywood

Office

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?

Caves

People

Real

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Brother

California

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Crazy

Deaf

Deafness

Differences

Different

Distance

Dog

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Doors

Dream

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Easy

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Feet

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Quotes by Marlee Matlin

Marlee Matlin

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.

At the end of the day, it’s about the best interests of the children.

Deaf people can do anything, except hear.

Differences are scarier now. The dollar isn’t so guaranteed if you don’t follow what they see as the norm. But I don’t moan about it. I just keep working.

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.

Every one of us is different in some way, but for those of us who are more different, we have to put more effort into convincing the less different that we can do the same thing they can, just differently.

Everybody’s got a job to do, and I do mine as best I can.

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?

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