"I want roles without anger and feistiness. I want to show weakness and sadness, some love, some happiness."
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"You can do anything if you set your mind to it. Look out for kids, help them dream and be inspired. We teach calculus in schools, but I believe the most important formula is courage plus dreams equals success."
Marlee Matlin"I hope I inspire people who hear. Hearing people have the ability to remove barriers that prevent deaf people from achieving their dreams."
Marlee Matlin"I'm different, and my manner invites questions. I'm never afraid to answer."
Marlee Matlin"I personally have dealt with any adversity in my life with humor. That's why I told America to 'Read my hips!' on 'Dancing With the Stars' or was happy to play along with Jason Alexander and Jerry Seinfeld in the great restaurant scene on 'Seinfeld.'"
Marlee Matlin"My parents were the ones who gave me the independence, who gave me the spark to do anything that you set your mind to, as all parents should do for their kids."
Marlee Matlin"Silence is the last thing the world will ever hear from me."
Marlee Matlin"The handicap of deafness is not in the ear; it is in the mind."
Marlee Matlin"I'm not broke. Like everybody else, I owe money."
Marlee Matlin"What parent has it easy? I just never make the difficulty of it an obstacle. I just do it."
Marlee Matlin"I'm the only one in my family who is deaf, and there are still conversations that go around me that I miss out on. And I ask what's going on, and I have to ask to be included. But I'm not going to be sad about it. I don't live in sad isolation. It's just a situation I'm used to."
Marlee Matlin"YouTube is akin to having my own network."
Marlee Matlin"I have made the choices that work best for me. I know I cannot please everyone, and that's fine."
Marlee Matlin"At some point we have to stop and say, There's Marlee, not, There's the deaf actress."
Marlee Matlin"The only thing I can't do is hear. I can drive, I have a life with four kids, I work on TV, I do movies, so the deafness question, is it that they want to know because, what? Not sure."
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