Marlee Matlin Quotes

I have made the choices that work best for me. I know I cannot please everyone, and that's fine.
Marlee Matlin

Work, Best, Made

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

Point, Stop, Deaf

I'm different, and my manner invites questions. I'm never afraid to answer.
Marlee Matlin

Different, Afraid, Questions

I'm not broke. Like everybody else, I owe money.
Marlee Matlin

Money, Else, Everybody

I live my life like everyone else; everyone has their own obstacles. Mine is deafness.
Marlee Matlin

Life, Live, Else

I'm gonna be unemployed when people read this. Ha.
Marlee Matlin

Read, Unemployed, Gonna

I've always wanted to write a book relating my experiences growing up as a deaf child in Chicago. Contrary to what people might think, it wasn't all about hearing aids and speech classes or frustrations.
Marlee Matlin

Book, Wanted, Child

It was ability that mattered, not disability, which is a word I'm not crazy about using.
Marlee Matlin

Crazy, Word, Ability

The best feeling in the world is when your child comes up to you and lays their head in your lap, for no other reason but just because. I can't wait to have more.
Marlee Matlin

Best, Feeling, Wait

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 as they can... just differently.
Marlee Matlin

Different, Same, Put

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.
Marlee Matlin

Different, Same, Put

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?
Marlee Matlin

Life, Business, Live

I hope that through my example, such as my role on 'The West Wing,' I can help change attitudes on deafness and prove we can really do everything... except hear.
Marlee Matlin

Change, Hope, Help

I've been around since I was 19, I won the Oscar when I was 21, I've had a couple of TV series. I've continued to work despite the predictions of some naysayers.
Marlee Matlin

Work, Around, Since

There are so many people, deaf or otherwise abled, who are so talented but overlooked or not given a chance to even get their foot in the door.
Marlee Matlin

Chance, Door, Deaf

As a kid, during the school year, my head was often buried in a textbook or Judy Blume book; the words and pictures were the perfect, barrier-free environment for me.
Marlee Matlin

School, Book, Words

At the end of the day, it's about the best interests of the children.
Marlee Matlin

Best, End, Children

By the time I was a teenager, my desire to be daring and taste everything got me in trouble. Too often, I was in the company of kids my parents would call 'wild.'
Marlee Matlin

Time, Parents, Everything

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.
Marlee Matlin

Working, Keep, Follow

Everybody's got a job to do, and I do mine as best I can.
Marlee Matlin

Best, Job, Everybody

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.
Marlee Matlin

Good, Different, Youth

I am writing my second novel for children for Simon and Schuster.
Marlee Matlin

Children, Writing, Second

I can hear you and I can watch your mouth move, and then I put together the sounds and the visual image, and I can understand the words as I integrate the two signals.
Marlee Matlin

Words, Together, Two

I find the mantle of, she works hard for the money, or, she's overcome so many obstacles a bit overused.
Marlee Matlin

Money, Hard, Find

I got a good handshake. A lot of executives tell me I have the best handshake in Hollywood.
Marlee Matlin

Good, Best, Tell

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Biography

Nationality: American

Born: August 24, 1965

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