In my normal life, I do not speak with an accent. It's harder for people to realize my hearing loss in everyday life.

Before a big acting competition, my dad sent me a note that said, 'Define the moment. Don't let the moment define you.'

It's really important to be active in your community, whatever community that is... find allies and find people who you relate to and who make you stronger as a group.

I'm a total nerd. I love comic books and video games and most of all zombies!

In the deaf community, in order to play a role of someone with a hearing loss... you have to have hearing loss.

I was born in San Antonio, TX, but moved to Lakewood, CO in elementary school. Then, I moved to Valley Center, CA in high school.

The iPad was my first splurge after I got my first paychecks. I paid off the debt, and I now bring the iPad with me to auditions.

Often it is the most deserving people who cannot help loving those who destroy them.

It is hard to understand what love is!

I dyed my hair blonde when I was 14. My mom was not happy. But I love being blonde.

It is not that things happen to each of us according to his fate, but that he interprets what has happened, if he has power to do so, according to his sense of his own destiny .

Success is more about doing the things you know you should do than discovering the secrets you don't yet know.

You can just say the word "hair" to a woman, and she tells you the story of her life.

Weakness is oftentimes so palpable as to be equivalent to wickedness.

It's got to be the going, not the getting there, that's good.

Don't let the fear of statistics keep you from launching a continual improvement program. The statistics hurdle is easily overcome, going out of business is not.

We only have to capture 1/10,000th of the solar energy landing on earth to completely satisfy all our energy needs.