My father was deafened at the age of six months from spinal meningitis, so he never knew sound at all. — Paul Raci Copy Share Image
My mother lost her hearing at the age of five years old, from spinal meningitis. — Paul Raci Copy Share Image
Having deaf parents shaped my whole life because back in the day there was no technology that could help them. — Paul Raci Copy Share Image
A lot of what my parents went through, their history, lives in my body. I'm just a witness to what my father… — Paul Raci Copy Share Image
So that is a shift I've seen from growing up: watching my parents feel oppressed by the hearing man, to now deaf… — Paul Raci Copy Share Image
My mother and father put down some earnest money on a house on the north side of Chicago. I don't remember the… — Paul Raci Copy Share Image
I was the go-between when my father needed to negotiate a contract whether it be our mortgage or my mother dealing with… — Paul Raci Copy Share Image
When my mother took me to the movies in 1956 to see 'Love Me Tender' with Elvis Presley, what I didn't realize… — Paul Raci Copy Share Image
My mother, when I was doing stage acting in Chicago, would come to see any show that I was in. There was… — Paul Raci Copy Share Image
American Sign Language is my native tongue. That's the first thing that I learned to communicate with. — Paul Raci Copy Share
I moved out here when I was 40 and guess what, they are not looking for 40-year-olds in Hollywood. — Paul Raci Copy Share
You're going to see more inclusion in casting in this town, in Hollywood. You're going to see a lot more differently abled people, people… — Paul Raci Copy Share
You throw all these obstacles in front of people, especially a lot of the deaf people that I've known in my life, you throw… — Paul Raci Copy Share
What I'm going to make sure happens, if I have anything to say about it, now that people are listening - we need to… — Paul Raci Copy Share
We all know in the deaf community, there are deaf actors, men and women who are highly, highly skilled, highly intuitive, highly intelligent, that… — Paul Raci Copy Share
I had so many deaf uncles that instilled in me this feeling of unconditional love, that's how I was brought up in that community.… — Paul Raci Copy Share
John Williams was a Vietnam veteran and I'm a Vietnam veteran, I did two tours in Vietnam. So knowing that, that he wrote a… — Paul Raci Copy Share
Everybody in Los Angeles is an actor, or they think they are, or they want to be. They're looking for that shot. And the… — Paul Raci Copy Share
My father was deafened at the age of six months from spinal meningitis, so he never knew sound at all. — Paul Raci Copy Share
This is why every actor wants to get a script - they want to see what the arc of the character is. — Paul Raci Copy Share
The Deaf population is not a monolith. It's so layered, so complicated. It's happy, it's sad, it's angry. The gamut of human emotion, amplified. — Paul Raci Copy Share
There are too many talented deaf men and women out there who are actors, who really have chops, who really know what they're doing.… — Paul Raci Copy Share
I'm so blessed that the garden I'm able to pull from, the actor's garden, is as rich as it is. — Paul Raci Copy Share
