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"I got a good handshake. A lot of executives tell me I have the best handshake in Hollywood."
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"Honestly, when I got to Hollywood I was trying to sell my songs."
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"Everyone is treating it like a Hollywood story. In Madison, it's a neighborhood story."
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"You know, there's so much imitation and so much pandering in Hollywood."
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"I'd like to be played as a child by Natalie Wood. I'd have some romantic scenes as Audrey Hepburn and have gritty black-and-white scenes as Patricia Neal."
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"I remember having to take detours around the Hollywood sign to avoid having to see this grotesque poster of myself on Sunset Boulevard."
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"There's a rule in Hollywood: stay away from water and stay away from snow, and I had both."
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"Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath."
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"I was in an awful lot of trouble in Hollywood."
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"Hollywood is a place where the stars twinkle until they wrinkle."
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"But Tommy Lee Jones is just smooth. He's just the real deal. I'm captivated by him because there's so little of that in Hollywood, and he just embodies it."
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"Maybe my way of communicating through sign made me more in tune with my body and how it moved. Who knows? I just know when I saw a stage for the first time, I wanted to be on it."
Time
"Everybody's got a job to do, and I do mine as best I can."
Job
"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."
People
"I learned to speak first, and then to sign. I have never really known what it was like to hear, so I can't compare hearing aids to normal hearing."
First
"I got a good handshake. A lot of executives tell me I have the best handshake in Hollywood."
Hollywood
"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."
Work
"The hearing aids are very helpful for speech reading. Without the hearing aids, my voice becomes very loud, and I cannot control the quality of my voice."
Quality
"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."
Feelings
"It was ability that mattered, not disability, which is a word I'm not crazy about using."
Ability
"I am writing my second novel for children for Simon and Schuster."
Children
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