I grew up in the Chicago Club of the Deaf. The Santa Claus I knew was a deaf Santa. — Paul Raci Copy Share Image
Most of the deaf people I know are proud to be deaf, and whole and complete. — Paul Raci Copy Share Image
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
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
There's plenty of deaf actors, tons of them that are talented, that deserve to work. — 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 think deaf people are actually really good at listening, and how ironic is that? — 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
When I grew up in the '50s, people were called 'hearing-impaired.' And then the consciousness of the community shifted: 'I'm not hearing-impaired.… — 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,… — 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
We all know in the deaf community, there are deaf actors, men and women who are highly, highly skilled, highly intuitive, highly… — 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 I was a kid in Chicago, it was looked upon as something that you had to fix - that you were… — 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… — 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… — Paul Raci Copy Share Image
How must that feel to any Deaf person, especially a culturally Deaf person, who hears nothing? Who goes through life, living their… — 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… — 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… — 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
I had so many deaf uncles that instilled in me this feeling of unconditional love, that's how I was brought up in… — Paul Raci Copy Share Image
Deaf culture, with a capital D, is just a whole world unto itself. When I was growing up, it was the Deaf… — Paul Raci Copy Share Image
Culturally deaf people don't want to be fixed. They don't feel impaired. They feel complete. — 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… — Paul Raci Copy Share Image
Thank God for Deaf West Theater - if it wasn't for them, where the hell else was I going to exercise my… — Paul Raci Copy Share Image
I've always been a sign language interpreter in the court system, and running out to do an audition so I could do… — Paul Raci Copy Share Image
Hearing people say, 'How can these deaf people understand the show when they come to a rock club?' They're up there, at… — Paul Raci Copy Share Image
I love going back to those silent films because my father who is totally deaf loved Buster Keaton. Loved him! More than… — 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
