127 Quotes by Marlee Matlin

I’m different, and my manner invites questions. I’m never afraid to answer.

I’m not really deaf; I just faked it to win the Oscar KIDDING.

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.

Everybody’s got a job to do, and I do mine as best I can.

At some point we have to stop and say, There’s Marlee, not, There’s the deaf actress.

During a visit to California, when a friend of my grandmother’s told my parents that I must be deaf because I was not responding to sounds, my father was absolutely convinced that I was simply being stubborn.

When I was young I knew I was deaf. I couldn’t accept it.

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.

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.