I did a film many years ago called The Man Without A Face.Gaby [Hoffmann] was in with Mel Gibson. That was his directing debut. He did a great job.

Most profoundly deaf people have speech that is very difficult to understand.

I'm one of the handful of survivors of the guys I came up with.

You have to give people the opportunity to prove themselves.

There is no relation to sound for deaf people. It is a totally different mental process.

I did my first movie,a movie called Whiffs, which very few people ever saw.

I had a very low voice for the character in the show. I said, "That's not actually my voice. That's the character's voice." I'm being such an actor.

She [Susan Lucci] was extraordinary. She wouldn't look at the scene until you walked in to rehearse it. It was amazing to me. That's the impression I got anyway.

If people don't actively knock the scenery over and they get the words out in something approximating the right order, you're moving on.

I have to say I was very lucky in this [movie] business. I was in the right place at the right time when I first got started.

In a very real way Norman [Lear] godfathered me into my career. He was the best mentor anybody could have ever had.

I am calling it a journey because the beauty of reading is, while you are reading you are in the same phase and the same mood the book is offering for as many days you continue to read.

Just the kind of girl I liked—the weirdo in the bunch.

Every day, in some way, we're all being prepared for something better.

I was the lead in two musicals, and I took dance classes.

One, I never get sick of talking about myself.

The principle of neutrality ... has increasingly become an obsolete conception, and, except under very special circumstances, it is an immoral and shortsighted conception.

One has to always ask the question: Where can one be most effective in helping shape policies? It is always difficult when you're inside because you're very constrained.

The sexuality of children - there's a lot friction there. That tension interests me a lot.

There are chemists who spend their whole lives trying to find out what's in a lump of sugar. I want to know one thing. What is color?

Comics taught me how to write, and also patience and confidence.