I Learned To Speak First, And Then

During A Visit To California, When A Friend Of My Grandmother's Told My Parents That I Must Be Deaf Because I Was Not Responding To Sounds, My Father Was Absolutely Convinced That I Was Simply Being Stubborn.

I Got A Good Handshake. A Lot Of Executives Tell Me I Have The Best Handshake In Hollywood.

I Hope I Inspire People Who Hear. Hearing People Have The Ability To Remove Barriers That Prevent Deaf People From Achieving Their Dreams.

Every One Of Us Is Different In Some Way, But For Those Of Us Who Are More Different, We Have To Put More Effort Into Convincing The Less Different That We Can Do The Same Thing They Can, Just Differently.

Hollywood Embraced Me In The Late '80s Because There Was A Good Project I Was In And It Was Different. Nowadays, It's About Corporate Mentality, Box Office, Youth.