Quotes by Marlee Matlin

About Marlee Matlin:

Marlee Beth Matlin is an American actress. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for Children of a Lesser God (1986), and is both the only deaf performer to win the award, and, at 21, the youngest to date. Her work in film and television has resulted in a Golden Globe award, with two additional nominations, and four Emmy nominations. Deaf since she was 18 months old, she is also a prominent member of the National Association of the Deaf. Her longtime interpreter is Jack Jason.
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The handicap of deafness is not in the ear; it is in the mind.

Marlee Matlin

I live my life like everyone else; everyone has their own obstacles. Mine is deafness.

Marlee Matlin

The only thing I can't do is hear. I can drive, I have a life with four kids, I work on TV, I do movies, so the deafness question, is it that they want to know because, what? Not sure.

Marlee Matlin

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 Ma...

Marlee Matlin

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.'

Marlee Matlin

Maybe my way of communicating through sign made me more in tune with my body and how it moved. Who knows? I just know when I saw a stage for the first time, I wanted to be on it.

Marlee Matlin

I'm not broke. Like everybody else, I owe money.

Marlee Matlin

I find the mantle of, she works hard for the money, or, she's overcome so many obstacles a bit overused.

Marlee Matlin

YouTube is akin to having my own network.

Marlee Matlin

Google, as usual, is one step ahead of everyone and provided the means where all videos on YouTube can be automatically captioned through voice-recognition technology without having to be told that it's the responsible thing to do.

Marlee Matlin

I would love to do a talk show. Naturally, I would love to do more films. I'd love to be able to see casting directors more willing to put in a character who happens to be deaf. I'm not talking about doing deaf storylines, but putting in deaf charact...

Marlee Matlin

There is nothing better than being a parent. It is the most challenging job one could ever ask for. I love being a mom and I love being a friend to my children as well.

Marlee Matlin

Popular broadcast shows and movies have their closed captions stripped when they go to the Internet.

Marlee Matlin

What parent has it easy? I just never make the difficulty of it an obstacle. I just do it.

Marlee Matlin

I've been around since I was 19, I won the Oscar when I was 21, I've had a couple of TV series. I've continued to work despite the predictions of some naysayers.

Marlee Matlin

Author Bio

  • NameMarlee Matlin
  • Descriptionactress
  • BornAugust 24, 1965
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionActor; Novelist; Writer; Autobiographer
  • AwardsAcademy Award For Best Actress; Honorary Doctorate