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"What the Bleep Do We Know was not written with a deaf person in mind, but when they met me, it clicked with them to have me in it. But that happens with a lot of actors in Hollywood, not just with me."
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"My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer."
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"I like to consider myself an actor who just happens to be Hispanic."
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"I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be."
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"I don't think I would be an actor if I was that intelligent."
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"I was convinced there as only one actor to play Templeton the Rat, and that was Tony Randall."
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"A lot of actors don't like to see how they've done every day."
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"It's very difficult for me to speak about being an actor."
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"Being an actor means being an instrument for someone else. I want to give myself completely."
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"Being a film actor is very different from a theatre actor."
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"The great actors we had came from the actor-manager theaters. Not only did they create a team, they were the generals working with the soldiers."
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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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"It was ability that mattered, not disability, which is a word I'm not crazy about using."
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"I have made the choices that work best for me. I know I cannot please everyone, and that's fine."
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"Watch me when people say deaf and dumb, or deaf mute, and I give them a look like you might get if you called Denzel Washington the wrong name."
People
"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."
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"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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"I have a great husband, great parents and in-laws, and I have help with a nanny. It's not easy, but there are others who do it every day and don't have a high-profile job as I do."
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"What the Bleep Do We Know was not written with a deaf person in mind, but when they met me, it clicked with them to have me in it. But that happens with a lot of actors in Hollywood, not just with me."
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