“Looking back now, thinking about that moment in the lights, with my he...” — Marlee Matlin Quote

Looking back now, thinking about that moment in the lights, with my heart pounding, Oscar in my hand, all I can say is I am grateful and humbled - still to this day. Next to marrying my husband and the birth of my children, it is one of the best days ever.

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.

I want roles without anger and feistiness. I want to show weakness and sadness, some love, some happiness.

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.

If you want to truly stand up for women's reproductive rights, then stand against birth control. Because nothing says anti-woman more than birth control.

Every child of Heavenly Father born in the world is given at birth, as a free gift, the Light of Christ.

When I was 13, I forged my date of birth so that I could get a Saturday job at Woolworth's, earning £1 3s 6d for the day. But my real ambition was to do something in the music world - or, at least, close to it.

I was born on an even keel. Family lore says I never cried, even at birth. I felt at ease on earth, in the right place. And like many children, I took comfort in life's regularity: Every few days it rained, the school bus came and went, and my parents were rooted in their union.