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

Most of the time, I get auditions for deaf characters where the scene has them communicating in really convoluted ways, like reading lips from across the room when the other person's back is turned or having other people parrot what they say.

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

I started to realize that there are a lot of people who are unaware of deaf culture, and I've been given a great platform to reframe the deaf community.

Written communication is a tremendous help for me, and so when electronic mail was invented in '71, I got very excited about it, thinking well, gee, the deaf community could really use this, or the hard-of-hearing community as well.

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

I think we really do need deaf people out there writing their own shows.

I am fourth-generation deaf, which means everyone in my immediate family is deaf. So I grew up always having 100 percent accessibility to language and communication, which was wonderful and something so many deaf people don't have.

There is research proving that deaf people have increased visual abilities.

There are so many deaf kids out there being deprived of their own language.