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If I were offered a cochlear implant today, I would prefer not to have one. But that's not a statement about hearing aids or cochlear implants. It's about who you are.

I was the first spokesperson for the Better Hearing Institute in Washington. And that's the message we tried to send out - there is hearing help out there, and the technology and options are amazing.

The deaf community and the hearing community, there's not always a ton of interaction.

We suspect Dr. Clutterbuck's sense of hearing must be injured: for him the 'ear trumpet' magnifies but distorts sound, rendering it less distinct than before.

I hadn't really noticed that I had a hearing problem. I just thought most people had given up on speaking clearly.

When you get older, two things happen to you. You begin to lose your hearing, and I forget what the other one is.

My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. Think of that, my beauty! - There 's a state for your old Lover to be in! - No more tender whisperings! Imagine sweet confessions to be made through an ear trumpet!

There is no relation to sound for deaf people. It is a totally different mental process.

In the wake of the San Francisco scene, ears were alive. It was a listening generation.

In the deaf community, in order to play a role of someone with a hearing loss... you have to have hearing loss.