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

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• ‟ 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.

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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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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ I guess not being able to hear just made me adventurous and daring. And in most cases, that didn't make my parents very happy with me.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ 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.'

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