I'm Gonna Be Unemployed When

The Best Feeling In The World Is When Your Child Comes Up To You And Lays Their Head In Your Lap, For No Other Reason But Just Because. I Can't Wait To Have More.

I Can Hear You And I Can Watch Your Mouth Move, And Then I Put Together The Sounds And The Visual Image And I Can Understand The Words As I Integrate The Two Signals.

I Hope That Through My Example, Such As My Role On 'the West Wing,' I Can Help Change Attitudes On Deafness And Prove We Can Really Do Everything... Except Hear.

When It Comes Down To It, It's About Who You Know, And Who's A Fan. It's About Whether You're The Right Age, Whether You're Hot Or Not, Whether The Studio Is Into You Or Not.

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.