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

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.

I consider anybody who has been able to make a living in this business [movie business] without having to do something else for a living for any period of time let alone 43 years would be a miracle.

Some people think that it’s okay to be downright nasty to people they love. It is not okay. Nasty is never called for, and it’s certainly not sweet, useful, nor positive.

Not everyone who has killed themselves because they were HIV positive would have been killed by AIDS.

Though I learned little in my compromised state, I learned enough to make a decision: I was going to understand how mood could overwhelm. I was going to understand depression or die trying.

We learn from education, experience and people.

Worship may produce an outward change, but our inner condition will eventually be revealed

Privacy is an inherent human right, and a requirement for maintaining the human condition with dignity and respect.

Increasingly unable to create for itself a relevant body of myth, the modern imagination will ransack the treasure house of the classic.

What a wonderful thing it is to have a good friend. He identifies your innermost desires, and spares you the embarrassment of disclosing them to him yourself.

The more we are happy in Krishna Consciousness, the more we become purified.

Unfortunately, I don't usually get to see much outside the Olympics as I compete almost every day. I have been to Rio a few times and got a tour of the sites. It is a spectacular city.