I’ve worked with a ginormous number of people over the years. What happens when you’ve been around for a while, when you run into people whose work you’ve seen and liked and they have seen and liked your work, there’s a sense of you kind of know each other even though you don’t.

If people don’t actively knock the scenery over and they get the words out in something approximating the right order, you’re moving on.

I’m one of the handful of survivors of the guys I came up with.

I had a very low voice for the character in the show. I said, “That’s not actually my voice. That’s the character’s voice.” I’m being such an actor.

I’m grateful I got the opportunity to do it because I know this now. If anybody ever asked me to do a daytime show again I would go no, no. I can’t do that. Not because it’s beneath me. It’s above me. It’s beyond my resources.

For example, the first time McDonald’s put a deaf person in a commercial they saw a jump in sales. I think that happens with other kinds of disabilities and products and that is something that is being realized more and more.

But people who think they can project themselves into deafness are mistaken because you can’t. And I’m not talking about imagining what a deaf person’s whole life is like I even mean just realizing what it is like for an instant.

I know deaf people. I have discussed the issues with them I’ve also thought about them a lot so I have some insights that go a little further than people who haven’t had contact with the deaf community.

But people who think they can project themselves into deafness are mistaken because you can't. And I'm not talking about imagining what a deaf person's whole life is like I even mean just realizing what it is like for an instant.

For example, the first time McDonald's put a deaf person in a commercial they saw a jump in sales. I think that happens with other kinds of disabilities and products and that is something that is being realized more and more.