Being in the hearing world was more of a challenge than being in the Deaf world, because I had to learn how to write and communicate in a way that I hadn't experienced growing up.

Sign language is my first language. English and Spanish are my second languages. I learned Spanish from my grandparents, sign language from my parents, and English from television.

Marlee [Matlin] is who she is and just happens to use an interpreter. I'm not a teacher. I'm not a helper. I'm just Jack, the interpreter guy.

A lot of times, if you watch sign language interpreters, there can be some lag time issues. When that happens, I think you lose the hearing audience.

Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves

Yer a good lad, Atticus, mowin’ me lawn and killin’ what Brits come around.

Abide in the vine, you will bear much fruits.

By the time a man can afford to lose a golf ball he can't hit that far.

Giving orders you know won't be obeyed is one of the best ways I know to destroy your own authority.

Cloning is great. If God made the original, then making copies should be fine.

Nature, or at least birds and women, abhorred the invisible man.

As a New Yorker, I'm someone who lives on an island and looks across to America.

Arbores loqui latine. The trees speak Latin.

I hate the feeling of falling - I'll never jump from a plane - but I love a good roller coaster. Go figure!