I'm a Coda, a child of deaf adults. I belong to an international organisation. There's Codas all over the world. — Paul Raci Copy Share Image
CODAs born after 1980 are a different breed. They're so free, because there's an interpreting profession. There was no profession when I was a kid. It could be a harrowing situation, to put a child through that. — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
