Top 76 Quotes by Marlee Matlin

When I was 13, I told Henry Winkler I wanted to act. He said, Do it and don't let anyone stand in your way. His validation just made it all the more true. I haven't stopped thanking him since.

The Earth does not belong to us: we belong to the Earth.

Humor comes in all forms, and everyone has their cup of tea about what makes them laugh. But the day we censor humor is a sad one for sure.

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.'

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

At the end of the day, 'My Deaf Family' is about a typical family that all of us can identify with but told from an unusual and what I believe will be a fascinating perspective.

When I was 11, I knew that I wanted to write a kid's book and tell the world what it was like being deaf.

I have made the choices that work best for me. I know I cannot please everyone, and that's fine.

The best feeling in the world is when you child just comes up to you and lays their head in your lap, for no other reason but just because.

It was ability that mattered, not disability, which is a word I'm not crazy about using.