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
Related What matters is the one thing I do know for certain: God is with me. CRAIG GROESCHEL When I attack a role, be it TV, film or stage, the first thing I say is, I don't want to know an... CICELY TYSON I like to play around with people who don't know me. Often I'm talking to people through my ... MARLEE MATLIN Cease to think of an impossibility and you will seize an opportunity for productivity. Excellence co... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR The biggest thing I want to see is that people have the drive to succeed. If they can 'take it o... TILMAN J. FERTITTA No one intimidates me because I'm not trying to do what you do, because I can't do what you ... MARY J. BLIGE The one thing about doing all those movies and all that television is I know what I'm doing. And... DAVID CARRADINE I'll still make movies for studios, but my editing process will be much further removed from the... SPIKE JONZE Directing is genderless. The only thing... I love men. I'm not being mean to them, but they can&... LORI PETTY I can't listen to anything when I write, not even the TV. I do have to listen to music when I dr... EMMA MCLAUGHLIN I Don't Like What I Do, I Love What I Do! JOHN PETERS My kids always say to me, 'Can we watch TV?' I say, 'Absolutely!' because then I can... NATASCHA MCELHONE I've got four kids, so I plan ahead. I have to book flights far in advance, look at accommodatio... MO FARAH I don't know if I work in order to do something, or in order to know why I can't do what I w... ALBERTO GIACOMETTI The only thing I can do is play baseball. I have to play ball. It's the only thing I know. MICKEY MANTLE The problem with the treadmill is I just don't know what to do in my head. You either stare at t... JAMIE BAMBER What I get really excited about are movies that I connect with emotionally. 'Deliverance' wa... KATIE ASELTON Comedy is so fun. I don't know how these people can make movies and work on them for four months... COLLEEN HASKELL The basic thing is that I want to do the best work possible, and I can only do that if I'm relax... JASON SCOTT LEE Yeah, I definitely wanted to do a kids' movie because I have a kid. I want to do things that my ... DAVID ARQUETTE The only thing I can cook is Welsh rarebit. IAN RUSH I can't imagine what I would be doing if I wasn't swimming. It is what I want to do now; it ... CATE CAMPBELL I can't do the same movies all my life. I'm conscious of that. But it's a trade-off. ... CHANNING TATUM The worst thing people ever say is that 'I can't afford to have kids!' It's selfish,... TAMER HASSAN I like to say that the greatest handicap of deafness does not lie in the ear, it lies in the mind. I... MARLEE MATLIN My kids are free to do what ever they want. Because I only advise. I don't make them do anything... JACK BOWMAN I want to have the fun of doing anime and I love anime, but I can't do storyboards because I can... QUENTIN TARANTINO What is the real question?
What I can do? Or
What I want to do? ELECTROJIT If you lived next door to me and didn't know what I did, you wouldn't know I was a celebrity... BILL ENGVALL I can see only three planets in the entire universe, namely Heaven, Earth and Me! Heaven shines its ... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Music is what I have to do, I only answer the questions so that I can do it. JACK WHITE I guess I can't live without Netflix because I would have nothing to do. All I do is sit home an... SARA PAXTON I have too much drive and determination to let anything falter me. Because I know that life's sh... JANA KRAMER I know I live a charmed, beautiful life and nobody wants to hear a celebrity whine. The last thing I... JENNIFER GARNER Yeah, I definitely wanted to do a kids' movie because I have a kid. I want to do things that my daug... DAVID ARQUETTE I just don't want to watch TV, and I know that life is short. I feel like I couldn't do all ... KYP MALONE I know what you're saying, but I already told you all the truth and I, I don't what, I don... WEN HO LEE You cant live champagne life,if you cant buy beer. I DONT KNOW I will definitely continue to do Bollywood because that is my thing and I can't not do it - I ha... TENA DESAE I would have liked to do more big movies. And the reason I say that is not because I want to be a st... DAVID SUCHET But people who think they can project themselves into deafness are mistaken because you can't. A... RICHARD MASUR I want the kids to know that it's not a myth that somebody from their city plays and wins in the... KAWHI LEONARD I have a tough time with stand-up because I am an improviser. I can riff; I can do crowd work, so I ... T. J. MILLER Often, if there's something that I want to do, but somehow can't get myself to do, it's ... GRETCHEN RUBIN I'm married now, so I have a life. I had to get a life. That's one thing I really had to do,... KATE JACKSON I'm not sure what the UFC's agenda is when it comes to me. It's their show, their press.... NATE DIAZ I'm more interested in my life than I am in my career. I don't want to not work. I do enjoy ... RACHEL TICOTIN I tell them 'thank you' because they don't need to thank us. I know they do it because they think it... AMY NEWMAN I hope that through my example, such as my role on 'The West Wing,' I can help change attitu... MARLEE MATLIN As a filmmaker, I always try not to concern myself with the outcome of things. I make the movie, and... SUSANNE BIER I'm always amazed to hear of air crash victims so badly mutilated that they have to be identifie... PAUL MERTON I have the kind of life where I can take my kids on trips with me. I can involve them in my work. I&... ROBERT KENNEDY, JR. I never play a villain that I don't have something I can either do or say so the audience sees t... BRION JAMES I didn't want to be thirtysomething and not know what I was going to do. I was quite afraid of t... STELLA MCCARTNEY I don't know why I survived Iraq and I don't know why I made it home, but I do know that thi... TAMMY DUCKWORTH You do not want to talk to me on the phone. How do I know? Because I don't want to talk to you o... JEFFREY KLUGER The only thing I can do is play baseball. I have to play ball. It's the only thing I know. MICKEY MANTLE I do loads of one-pot things because I feel like you can't go too far wrong. And I make a lot of... SOPHIE MCSHERA The fact that I am Latino is not a secret. There's not much I can do about that. It is what it i... PETE GALLEGO Not only do I not know what's going on, I wouldn't know what to do about it if I did. GEORGE CARLIN I'm tenacious, I think - I know - and I do also have a quality where if you tell me I can't ... ELLEN BARKIN I have a personal philosophy in life: If somebody else can do something that I'm doing, they sho... NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON I know who I am, I know what I can and can't do. I know what I will and won't do. I know wha... DOLLY PARTON I really feel all my adult life has been spent in that little black box. If a wonderful part on TV c... BEA ARTHUR The only thing I know for sure is how much I do not know. DEAN KOONTZ The best thing you can do for your kids is to show them God working in you on a daily basis. CRAIG GROESCHEL When I was a kid I didn't know what I wanted to be when I grew up, but I did know what I didn... JODY WILLIAMS I'm not a supermodel. That's not what I do. What I do is music. I want my fans to feel the w... LADY GAGA How do you create chemistry? If only I knew that! Some people say it's a natural thing that you ... KAREN GILLAN When you see or hear something beautiful, it's like that thing is transmitting a kind of energy,... ANN DEMEULEMEESTER I don't have a lot of skills, but one thing I can do is, I can compartmentalize. I can make that... DANA SPIOTTA My life is what it is, and I can't change it. I can change the future, but I can't do anythi... ALEX TREBEK My father loved me so much that he did not want me to be a laborer or anything. I don't know if ... JOE PESCI Working with the brothers can put pressure on my voice, so I choose to do my own solo thing so I can... AARON NEVILLE I don't care what you say about me anymore! I don't care what you write about me anymore. I ... GERRY COONEY I guess I worry about weird existential things, like how do we spend our final act. This is a very e... ELLEN BARKIN I don't see how can I offend Mexicans with the truth. It is what Mexicans want to hear. ADOLFO AGUILAR ZINSER I haven't lived a perfect life. I have regrets. But that's from a lifetime of taking chances... KEVIN COSTNER It's funny when people ask an actor what they want to play next, because you don't get to de... DYLAN WALSH I love the feeling of having as close to a steady job as you can ever have as an actor. I'm not ... JASON RITTER I believe the human mind is a very fallible thing, but it's the only thing that I can really kno... GRIMES I certainly can't complain. I work six days a week, if not seven, and eighteen hours out of twen... ALBER ELBAZ Courtney was right we really do need to work on ball placement. For a while when I talked to my kids... MARIANNE BRETSCHNEIDER It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained. QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and... QUEEN ELIZABETH II My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have to be seen to be believed. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast. QUEEN ELIZABETH II The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t... QUEEN ELIZABETH II To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th... QUEEN ELIZABETH II What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e... QUEEN ELIZABETH II To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Grief is the price we pay for love. QUEEN ELIZABETH II The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II
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