American - Actress | August 24, 1965 -
When it comes down to it, it's about who you know, and who's a fan. It's about whether you're the right age, whether you're hot or not, whether the studio is into you or not.
Marlee Matlin
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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.
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I'm not broke. Like everybody else, I owe money.
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When I was young I knew I was deaf. I couldn't accept it.
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I was 21 years and 218 days old when I received the Academy Award for Best Actress. I had just stepped into an imaginary world that I'd seen at a distance for years.
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When you're up for an award at the Oscars, try as you might, it's hard to concentrate on the show.
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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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I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago, and in spite of what most people might have expected from a young girl growing up deaf, life for me was like one long episode of 'The Brady Bunch.' Despite whatever barriers were in my way, I imagined myself as Marcia Brady skating down the street saying 'hi' to everyone, whether they knew me or not.
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I became deaf when I was 18 months old. And I learned to sign when I was 5 years old.
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When I was 11, I knew that I wanted to write a kid's book and tell the world what it was like being deaf.
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